DroversOpinion

Is the Current Farm Safety Net Making Agriculture Less Competitive?

The federal farm safety net was designed to offset losses. But some farmers and economists argue it has become a profit ...
American Enterprise Institute

Do Work Requirements in Safety Net Programs Work?

Twenty-four House Republicans proposed a bill to strengthen work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) last week, continuing a long-running debate over work requirements ...
Health Affairs

Safety-Net Hospitals More Likely Than Other Hospitals To Fare Poorly Under Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing

Medicare’s value-based purchasing (VBP) program potentially puts safety-net hospitals at a financial disadvantage compared to other hospitals. In 2014, the second year of the program, patient ...
PBS

Column: We need to fix the social safety net, not shame those who need it

Editor's Note: Kristin S. Seefeldt is an assistant professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and the author of "Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in ...
WBUR

How losing the Patient Safety Network could impact public health

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. You might not use the Patient Safety Network ...