THE ISSUE
Health Care
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How Can Americans Live Longer, Healthier Lives?
Why does America have so much trouble keeping people healthy? Much of the stagnation of U.S. life expectancy, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, can be attributed to high rates of chronic illness like heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. When nearly 70% of U.S. deaths can be attributed to a chronic disease, preventative care could be the most revolutionary reform to the American healthcare system.
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The Next CARES Act: A Better, Faster Way to Deliver Aid
In this issue brief, The New Center explores what went wrong with the implementation of some of the current CARES Act programs to assist individuals and businesses, and what new programs could be considered in the next round of coronavirus relief legislation.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Medical Supply Shortages
In this issue brief, The New Center outlines steps the federal government and states have taken to address supply shortages, and what America can and should do in the future to ensure access to critical medicines and supplies when we need them.
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Centering on Coronavirus: The Expansion of Telehealth
In our June 18, 2020, installment of the Centering on Coronavirus issue series, The New Center looks deeper at recent regulatory changes to telehealth reimbursement policies, data privacy requirements, and cross-state licensing regimes that are revolutionizing health care delivery.
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COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: How Could We Let This Happen?
In this paper, The New Center explains how and why America allowed its most vulnerable people to be exposed to this deadly virus and proposes ideas for how we can ensure a tragedy like this never happens again.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Finding the Center on State and Local Aid
In this issue brief, published June 1, 2020, The New Center suggests the outlines of an urgent and common-sense bipartisan compromise that would keep states and localities afloat and keep frontline workers on the job now, while developing a more sustainable framework for state and local aid for future crises.
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Centering on Coronavirus: The Digital Divide
Ensuring affordable broadband access for every household has never been more important for those working and learning from home. In this installment of the Centering on Coronavirus issue series, The New Center suggests closing the gap in internet connectivity among American households by combining short-term and immediate local solutions with long-term funding to improve affordability.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Litigating a Pandemic
As we reopen America, can we balance the safety needs of workers with the business needs of their employers? The New Center thinks so, and it starts with clear, practical, and enforceable safety standards set by Congress.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Aiding Vulnerable Nonprofits
In our May 4, 2020 installment of the Centering on Coronavirus issue series, The New Center explores why the United States should let Americans deduct any charitable donations made between March 13 (the date of national emergency declaration) and July 15 on their 2019 tax return, instead of 2020.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Diagnostic and Antibody Testing
In this issue brief, published April 27, 2020, The New Center explores how the United States got behind the testing curve and how we might still be able to correct our course and move toward a safe reopening of our economy.
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Centering on Coronavirus: The Gig Economy
In our April 17, 2020 installment of the Centering on Coronavirus issue series, The New Center discusses the importance of the gig economy and the unique challenges of nontraditional workers in the fight against coronavirus.
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Centering on Coronavirus: The Ventilator Shortage
In an issue brief published on April 10, 2020, The New Center discusses the importance of ventilators in the fight against coronavirus, what is causing their current shortage, and how governments and the private sector are responding to ensure as many people as possible have access to these life-saving devices.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Voting During a Pandemic
“Voting During a Pandemic,” the second installment in The New Center’s “Centering on Coronavirus” policy series published on April 2, 2020, discusses the various implications of the coronavirus on our elections, how states have responded, and why a massive expansion of mail-in voting may be the only feasible way to conduct the November general election.
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Centering on Coronavirus: Vaccine Development
Our first policy insight in the Centering on Coronavirus series, “Vaccine Development,” is focused on how the typical vaccine development process is being accelerated–technologically, bureaucratically, and financially–to meet this unprecedented challenge.
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The Opioid Crisis
Since the 1990s, opioid deaths in America have quadrupled and opioid abuse has emerged as perhaps the country’s most serious public health crisis. Though recent efforts by legislators, doctors, and patients have striven to curb this epidemic, opioid-related overdoses still kill 130 Americans every day. We can, and should, be doing more.
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Medicare Payment Reform
According to a recent Medicare trustees report, the program will be unable to fully fund its services by 2026. Congress must address systemic inefficiencies in the way that Medicare pays for medicine and services.
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Closing the Doctor Gap
The United States faces a significant provider shortage. While 2020 presidential contenders have already proposed several ideas for expanding health care access, they haven't discussed how the U.S. can ensure it has enough providers to deliver that care.
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The Big Issues
Climate and Energy
Climate and Energy
The fight against climate change is a multi-decade challenge, and must be sustained across many presidencies and sessions of Congress. For any solution to stand a chance, it must be forged in the center.
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