Dr. Beth McGinty

Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults, according to a new survey from the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that restricting telehealth prescriptions for opioid use disorder could prevent thousands from accessing buprenorphine, a medication that helps people recover from addiction.

The center connects health policy researchers across Cornell’s campuses to help shape effective health policy at the federal, state and local levels.

State laws allowing medical cannabis use did not reduce prescriptions for opioids or other therapies for chronic, non-cancer pain, according to a policy analysis by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.