Center in the News List
Aug 17, 2025
Gerald F. Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expert context to explain how some Americans who have health insurance still end up facing medical debt and thus may move to another with more affordable health care.
Apr 28, 2025
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.
Apr 10, 2025
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.
Apr 07, 2025
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.
Dec 07, 2024
Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered context about the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Dec 04, 2024
“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.”
Nov 21, 2024
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.
Fortune
Nov 13, 2024
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.”
Nov 08, 2024
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.
Sep 03, 2024
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.