Center in the News
Apr 28, 2025
Capital & Main
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Gerald Kominski says that even though cutting Medicaid would worsen health outcomes and result in higher health care costs across the board, he expects congressional Republicans to deliver a bill to President Trump’s desk that makes the cuts.
Gerald F. Kominski
Apr 10, 2025
Healthcare Brew
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Gerald Kominski was quoted extensively in this article about the history and impact of the Affordable Care Act.
Gerald F. Kominski
Apr 07, 2025
Capital & Main
Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, explained the potential consequences Republicans could face if their efforts to cut federal spending to pay for tax cuts end up taking money from Medicaid, the program that provides health care for low-income people.
Gerald F. Kominski
Dec 07, 2024
San Francisco Chronicle (paywall)
Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered context about the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Gerald F. Kominski
Dec 04, 2024
California Healthline (KFF Health News)
“Medicaid is on the chopping block, and I don’t think that’s speculation,” says Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “It is widely viewed by potential members of Trump’s administration as a program that is too broad and needs to be brought under control.”
Gerald F. Kominski
Nov 21, 2024
MDLinx
Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered his ideas about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s qualifications for the position of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Serivces.
Gerald F. Kominski
Nov 13, 2024
Fortune
Trump is praising RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again’ plan. Scientists are worried
In order to stop the fluoridation of water from a federal standpoint, “Congress would have to pass a law outlawing the use of fluoridation or perhaps the EPA would have to put fluoridation of water on a dangerous chemical list,” says Gerald Kominski, Ph.D., senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. But Kominski says that Kennedy may have influence “through public persuasion and the authority of whatever position he might have to encourage municipalities to go ahead and stop using fluoride.”
Gerald F. Kominski
Nov 08, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and Mark Peterson, also a senior fellow at UCLA CHPR, were quoted in the L.A. Times about how things related to health care might change under the second Trump administration.
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Mark Peterson
Sep 03, 2024
CalMatters
Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, spoke to CalMatters to compare how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump presidencies could affect the Affordable Care Act.
Gerald F. Kominski
Aug 30, 2024
N.Y. Post
Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered his thoughts about Donald Trump's proposal that in-vitro fertilization (IVF) be made free for wannabe parents.
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