Health Policy Journal Club, February 2025

The health policy journal club is an interdisciplinary, inter-professional group convened monthly by the Farley Health Policy Center to discuss timely topics in health policy. A curated selection of high-yield articles provides the basis for discussion. Past topics have included income inequality and health, professionalism in medicine, patients as consumers, and adjusting payment for measures of social risk. This page presents the reading list from the most recent journal club  

This month’s health policy journal club focuses on insurance coverage and payment as part of an ongoing conversation about health policy in the new federal administration: threats, opportunities, and recommendations.

Policy recommendations from the National Academies of Medicine for the new administration

Berwick DM, Batchlor E, Chokshi DA, Gabow P, Gilfillan R, Isasi F, Milstein A, Nichols LM. From Laggard To Leader: Why Health Care In The United States Is Failing, And How To Fix It. Health Affairs. 2025 Feb 1:10-377.

Threats to Medicaid

Rosenbaum S, Barkoff A. What lies ahead for Medicaid in budget reconciliation? Health Affairs Forefront. February 11, 2025.

Galewitz P. 9 states poised to end coverage for millions if Trump cuts Medicaid funding. KFF Health News. December 4, 2024.

Levi R. Why many Republicans think shrinking Medicaid will make it better. NPR. February 10, 2025.

Threats to the ACA

Caplan J, Haiman M. Litigating evidence and preventative care: Supreme Court takes up Braidwood. January 15, 2025. AcademyHealth.

What's next for the Affordable Care Act? KFF. February 10, 2025.

A potential opportunity and a call for action

Diamond D. RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians. Washington Post. November 22, 2024. (attached)

Woolf SH. How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? JAMA. Published online January 31, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.1218