Harold Pollack is a fellow at The Century Foundation where he writes at the interface between poverty policy and public health. He is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration. He is also Co-Director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab. His research appears in such journals as Addiction, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research, and Health Affairs. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, the Atlantic, healthinsurance.org, and many other publications. Past president of the Health Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association, Pollack has been appointed to three committees of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
Pollack holds master’s and doctorate degrees in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Before coming to SSA, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University and taught Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Latest Work by Harold Pollack
- Watch: Healthcare Reform Still a ‘BFD’
- January 29, 2014
- Republicans Get Medicaid Costs All Wrong
- December 9, 2013
- Heroin Addiction’s Best Treatment
- November 26, 2013
- The Long-Term Effects of Nuclear Testing
- November 13, 2013
- Obamacare’s Failures Enable Bipartisanship
- November 12, 2013
- Making HIV Testing More Effective
- October 30, 2013
- The Triumphs of Disability Policy
- October 21, 2013
- “Individualized Premiums.” Let’s Not Go There.
- August 13, 2013
- The Yellen/Summers Fight Is Important . . . and Not Just for the Reasons You Think
- August 8, 2013
- An Idea So Stupid Even the Congress (Probably) Won’t Pass It
- May 1, 2013
- It’s Not a 401(k) World—At Least It Doesn’t Have To Be
- May 1, 2013
- Margaret Thatcher: Right on HIV AIDS
- April 9, 2013
- Misleading Trends with Benefits
- March 28, 2013
- The Best and Worst News in Health Policy: 2012
- January 4, 2013
- Kludgeocracy—Yeah It’s a Problem, but Policy Complexity Is Also a Fact of Life
- December 14, 2012
- The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion
- December 4, 2012
- One Homeless Young Mother and Her Toddler
- September 27, 2012
- House Committee Bans Critical Thinking Skills in Health Policy
- July 19, 2012
FEATURING Harold Pollack
- Here’s why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard
- January 16, 2016
- Fellow Americans: What’s The State Of Your Finances?
- January 13, 2016
- Everything You Need to Know About Money on One Index Card
- January 5, 2016
- Yes, Obamacare is in dire need of fixing. Here’s a guide to the best options.
- January 4, 2016
- Obamacare Supporters Make Case for Big Changes
- December 15, 2015
- Experts Propose Wide-Ranging ACA Tweaks To Improve Affordability
- December 15, 2015
- 5 reasons drug testing welfare recipients is profoundly stupid
- October 17, 2015
- Sharp divide over California’s bullet background check bill
- October 15, 2015
- If you want mental health services to prevent violence, Medicaid expansion is critical
- October 3, 2015
- Improve and Repair: Three Ideas to Strengthen the ACA
- September 30, 2015
- Our Health System Has Big Problems But…
- September 14, 2015
- Saving SSDI
- August 31, 2015
- Chicago Survey Finds Crooks Get Guns from Pals, Don’t Keep Them Long
- August 29, 2015
- A Crime and Policing Expert Critiques Black Lives Matter’s Police-Reform Plan
- August 24, 2015
- Who will care for my brother-in-law Vincent?
- August 12, 2015
- A financial plan on an index card
- August 10, 2015
- Another False Alarm on the Costs of Medicaid Expansion
- July 16, 2015
- Expert Predictions of the Outcome in King vs. Burwell
- July 1, 2015
- The Greatest Trolling Exercise in the History of Health Policy Is Over
- June 25, 2015
- Glenn Loury and Harold Pollack on The Glenn Show
- June 5, 2015
- Is A New Crime Wave on the Horizon?
- June 3, 2015
- When The Gang-bangers Are White Guys
- May 19, 2015
- A Conversation with Crowdfunder Luis Lang
- May 16, 2015
- Hey, Weekly Standard: Could You Correct that Obamacare Tax Thing?
- April 6, 2015
- Is Expanding Medicaid an Essential Part of Reducing Mass Incarceration?
- March 11, 2015
- The GOP’s Political Incompetence in Selma
- March 8, 2015
- Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drug Dealing or Gangs
- February 25, 2015
- How 401(k) Accounts Widen Race/Ethnic Wealth Disparities
- February 22, 2015
- Middle-Age Blacks Have Less in Their 401(k)s Than Young Whites
- February 20, 2015
- Mourning David Carr, Another Stranger Who Made My Life Brighter
- February 14, 2015
- Tennessee’s Drug Tests Of Welfare Recipients Find 37 Drug Users
- February 10, 2015
- All Our Politicians Should Join Together to End the Dangerous Anti-Vaccination Madness
- February 4, 2015
- Vaccines: Why Paranoids Make the Best Suckers
- February 4, 2015
- The President Was Right (Though Politically Clumsy) To Go After Those Luscious 529 College Accounts
- January 30, 2015
- Martin Luther King Wouldn’t Be Very Happy With This Medicaid Map
- January 21, 2015
- Why the Wealthy Stopped Smoking, But the Poor Didn’t
- January 14, 2015
- It’s a Pain in the Neck to Live With an Intellectual Disability
- December 29, 2014
- Murthy’s Confirmation Battle Between Public Health Experts and the Gun Lobby
- December 18, 2014
- Living Well With Breast Cancer by Choosing Wisely: A Conversation With Amy Berman
- December 16, 2014
- Why It’s Rare for Someone Like Ashton Carter to Work in Government
- December 5, 2014
- Who Will Help That Man?
- December 2, 2014
- What Happens When Your Pregnant Sister-in-Law is Paralyzed in an Accident — and Has No Insurance.
- November 25, 2014
- A Human Being Lives in There
- November 21, 2014
- How To Break a National Habit
- November 13, 2014
- Gun Lobby Blocks Crucial Federal Appointment
- November 11, 2014
- Atul Gawande Explains Why the Health Care System Should Stop Trying to Help Everyone Live Longer
- October 31, 2014
- Centers for Damage Control
- October 21, 2014
- Yes, Ebola Is Scary. But the System Is Working.
- October 20, 2014
- Choosing Death
- October 15, 2014
- The last civil right
- October 14, 2014
- This Woman Will Take Her Own Life November 1. Our Healthcare System Let Her Down.
- October 9, 2014
- How Obamacare could reduce crime and incarceration
- October 7, 2014
- Obamacare 2.0
- September 30, 2014
- Most people want to live past 75, but they haven’t given much thought to dying
- September 30, 2014
- Scholar Zeke Emanuel says he wants to die at 75. Here’s why this author hopes to live.
- September 30, 2014
- What’s wrong with the new conservative answer to Obamacare
- September 11, 2014
- What politicians can learn today from Reagan’s unexpected rise to power
- September 10, 2014
- 5 Reasons Booze Is Deadlier than Heroin and Other Drugs That’ll Land You in Jail
- September 2, 2014
- Alcohol is still the deadliest drug in the United States, and it’s not even close
- August 21, 2014
- Alcohol linked to more homicides in US than any other substance
- August 21, 2014
- An economist and a personal finance expert teach you money
- August 8, 2014
- Kentucky Show Why We Fought for the ACA
- August 4, 2014
- Could This Chicago Program Be The Answer To Insuring The Mentally Ill?
- August 4, 2014
- Slipping Through The System: Are Mentally Ill Americans Getting Adequate Health Care?
- August 4, 2014
- No logic behind random, deadly home invasions
- August 4, 2014
- No, the Halbig case isn’t going to destroy Obamacare
- July 22, 2014
- AIDS Researcher Who Died in Malaysia Airlines Crash Was A Scientific Hero
- July 21, 2014
- Tobacco is Still America’s Top Health Threat. But Washington Doesn’t Treat it That Way.
- July 14, 2014
- Let’s Talk About ‘Death Panels’
- July 7, 2014
- The Supreme Court Would Prefer People With Disabilities Receive Care from Disgruntled Workers
- July 1, 2014
- The Pope at Yad Vashem
- June 19, 2014
- Why Law Enforcement Missed Elliot Rodger’s Warnings Signs
- June 19, 2014
- Looking Beyond the Botched ACA Rollout
- June 6, 2014
- Figuring Out How to Put ‘Skin in the Game’
- June 6, 2014
- Can We ‘Do the Right Thing’ Profitably?
- June 6, 2014
- How Obamacare Could Help Prevent the Next Shooting Rampage
- May 30, 2014
- Why Law Enforcement Was Powerless to Stop Elliot Rodger from Buying Guns
- May 30, 2014
- The NRA has been blocking a nominee for surgeon general since February
- May 26, 2014
- Obamacare Critics Now Admit the Law Is Saving Lives, But Say the Price Still Isn’t Worth It
- May 16, 2014
- Could Obamacare save 24,000 lives a year?
- May 15, 2014
- Obamacare Saves Lives, But That’s Not Really Its Big Benefit
- May 13, 2014
- Cost of the Medicaid Expansion Rejection in Lives As Well as Dollars
- May 13, 2014
- C.S. Lewis and the Science of Obamacare
- May 12, 2014
- The Key Obamacare Question: How Much Should Taxpayers Spend…
- May 12, 2014
- Death on the Installment Plan
- May 8, 2014
- Ladies’ Home Journalism
- May 7, 2014
- New RomneyCare study gives glimpse of ObamaCare costs
- May 6, 2014
- New RomneyCare Study Gives Glimpse of ObamaCare Costs
- May 6, 2014
- Could Obamacare Save 24,000 Lives a Year?
- May 6, 2014
- The surprising policy legacy of Ladies Home Journal
- May 5, 2014
- How Chicago is using psychotherapy to fight crime — and winning
- May 2, 2014
- Here’s What Happens When the GOP Takes Over the Senate
- April 30, 2014
- The Late Soviet Scenario
- April 29, 2014
- Adding Penury To Injury
- April 28, 2014
- Seeing Our Race and Class Differences, Seeing Past These Differences, Too
- April 11, 2014
- Bloggingheads: Harold Pollack and Glenn Loury
- April 4, 2014
- The long road ahead for Obamacare
- April 4, 2014
- Inside Obamacare’s 11th Hour
- April 4, 2014
- Study Says Tougher Enforcement Doesn’t Seem to Make Illegal Drugs More Expensive
- March 25, 2014
- Vivek Murthy, the NRA and the politics of fear
- March 18, 2014
