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Report Health of US Primary Care Scorecard Primary Care Transformation
February 2026 Yalda Jabbarpour, Anuradha Jetty, Hoon Byun, Anam Siddiqi, Jeongyoung Park, Christopher F. Koller,
This analysis shows the tangible benefits of primary care access for people with chronic disease, including substantially lower hospitalization rates and health care spending. More
Health of US Primary Care Scorecard
February 2026 Yalda Jabbarpour,
The 2026 Primary Care Scorecard data show incremental, but fragile, gains in the primary care workforce and training pipeline. Financing for primary care continues to stagnate, with national spending levels largely unchanged and far below what is needed. There was considerable state variability for primary care spending and for primary care workforce density. More
February 2026 Mary Louise Gilburg,
We are pleased to present our top 10 most-read Milbank Quarterly articles of 2025. Innovative Insurance to Improve US Patient Access to… More
State Health Policy Leadership
February 2026 Debra Lubar,
I was raised in a football family. Not that anyone played. We were Washington, DC NFL fans, with Sundays consumed by the team now called the… More
Commercial Determinants of Health Population Health
February 2026 Ashley N. Gearhardt, Kelly D. Brownell, Allan M. Brandt,
Context: Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) now dominate the global food supply and are strongly associated with risks for heart disease, cancers, metabolic… More
February 2026
Regulators should look to tobacco control for policies to manage ultra-processed food’s impact on health February 3, 2026—As the federal… More
Health IT Rural Health
January 2026 Pedram Fard, Hossein Estiri,
The December 2025 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence has generated familiar responses from familiar quarters. Legal scholars debate federal… More
Health Care Affordability
January 2026 Amy Kinner, Katherine Ahrens, Katie McGraves-Lloyd,
Takeaways for states considering cross-state all-payer claims database collaborations to assess health care quality, use, or costs. More
Milbank State Leadership Network State Health Policy Leadership
January 2026
Long concerned about the impact of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on pharmaceutical prices, Milbank’s Emerging Leaders Program alumna Kim Chen developed and helped pass 2025 state budget legislation to create licensure for these entities. More
Health Equity Population Health
January 2026 Sara Rosenbaum,
The implications of the Department of Justice’s action to eliminate the “disparate impact” test, which provides the legal foundation for removing discriminatory barriers in public health and health care. More
