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Fellow Harold Pollack

Fellow Harold Pollack focuses on issues of Economics and Inequality. He is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago.

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• In The News: Which states are going with insurance exchanges—and does it matter?
  TCF VP of Policy Greg Anrig quoted in The Daily Briefing.
  Dec 14, 2012
• Blog Post: The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion
  During the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, the president and governors need to get along.
  Dec 4, 2012
• Blog Post: The Snapshot: Public Says Keep Medicare the Way It Is!
  Polls show that the majority of the public wants to keep Medicare the way it is.
  Aug 27, 2012
• In The News: You Don’t Keep the Medicare Promise When You Bloc Grant and Cut Medicaid
  TCF Fellow Harold Pollcak writes in Blog of the Century.
  Aug 23, 2012
• Blog Post: You Don’t Keep the Medicare Promise When You Bloc Grant and Cut Medicaid
  In repealing health reform, Romney and Ryan would re-open the prescription drug donut hole and remove other benefits included in the Affordable Care Act,
  Aug 23, 2012
• Blog Post: Expanding Medicaid Saved Lives
  No matter how many times we refute the idea that Medicaid is bad for health, people keep on saying it. There’s so much evidence to the contrary. Recently, a number of states have used the “questionable” quality of Medicaid to buttress their arguments against the Medicaid expansion contained in the Affordable Care Act.
  Jul 26, 2012
• Blog Post: House Committee Bans Critical Thinking Skills in Health Policy
  It is beyond foolish to spend $2.8 trillion on health care without examining the quality of medical services, without exploring the link between services provided and subsequent patient outcomes.
  Jul 19, 2012
• Event: Disability and Public Policy: Brown Bag Lunch with Harold Pollack
  Harold Pollack will be discussing his research on intellectual disability and public policy, which he views as an overlooked triumph of American social policy.
  Jul 10, 2012
• Blog Post: On Health Care Reform, Mitt Romney Knows Better
  So, despite achieving roughly $1 trillion in concrete savings and more than paying for itself, ACA somehow adds trillions of dollars to the public debt . . . by what rules of fiscal math?
  Jul 9, 2012
• Blog Post: The Snapshot: Public Says Keep or Expand the ACA
  Jul 9, 2012
• Blog Post: Three Cheers for the ACA’s Surtax on Investment Income
  The ACA’s new tax on investment income makes the tax code fairer by reducing the preferential treatment given to capital gains.
  Jul 8, 2012
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: How Much Does the Affordable Care Act Raise Taxes, Really?
  Conservatives are calling the Affordable Care Act "the largest tax increase in U.S. history." A closer look at the data proves that claim false.
  Jul 3, 2012
• In The News: Glenn Loury and Harold Pollack on bloggingheads.tv
  Glenn and Harold discuss the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Affordable Care Act.
  Jul 3, 2012
• Blog Post: The Economics of the SCOTUS Health Care Decision
  In order for these markets to work, health insurance must be distributed over a wide variety of people so that the average cost of care will be affordable, and to stop the markets from breaking down.
  Jun 29, 2012
• Blog Post: The Efficiencies of Publicly Provided Health Care, Revisited
  The ACA is a momentous step toward more efficient and comprehensive health care coverage in the United States, but reform will undoubtedly remain a work in progress.
  Jun 28, 2012
• Blog Post: Health Care Reform Lives!
  After the prolonged, tortured, cliff-hanging congressional deliberations leading to the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, hardly anyone imagined that the subsequent legal scrutiny would be comparably prolonged, tortured, and cliff-hanging.
  Jun 28, 2012
• In The News: The Enduring Damage of the Obamacare Case
  Harold Pollack on the SCOTUS decision.
  Jun 28, 2012
• In The News: 2012 Elections Aren’t Just About Health Reform
  Harold Pollack and Henry Aaron mildly dissent from efforts to curb social insurance.
  Jun 16, 2012
• Blog Post: The Real Missed Opportunity for Stimulus in Health Reform
  Noam Scheiber, Jonathan Cohn, Ezra Klein, Kevin Drum, and even Mitt Romney are getting into it regarding whether the White House missed an opportunity to pursue a second stimulus by pursuing health care reform. As a professor, I hate to interrupt the learning experience of students having a useful debate. Still, enough is enough. It’s time for the answer key.
  Jun 13, 2012
• Commentary: The Snapshot: Don’t Repeal or Cut Funding for Obamacare
  By Ruy Teixeira.
  Jun 4, 2012