Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Megan Doede, PhD, RN
Dr. Doede is an emergency nurse. She received her doctoral degree in occupational health psychology. She is clinical faculty in the Department of Family and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
Elderly and Poor with Limited Options
The 2013 , which was intended to provide long term care insurance to millions of participating Americans, means that affordable financing of long term care insurance remains out of reach for many. Currently, the bulk of nursing home care is Continue Reading …
The Patient-Centered Medical Home
In a 2014 article published in Health Services Research, researchers compared health care utilization and payments between the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognized patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practices and practices without such recognition. The study conducted three annual Continue Reading …
Is the Affordable Care Act toxic to workers?
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce is a nurse-authored paper that appeared in a recent Heritage Foundation Backgrounder. In it, the author concludes that the Affordable Care Act does not address the root cause Continue Reading …
Medicaid is not a welfare magnet
A recent study generated by two Harvard scholars and published in Health Affairs concludes that law-maker anxiety regarding the “welfare magnet” hypothesis—which projects that states which expand their Medicaid programs will open themselves to an undesirable influx of poor Continue Reading …
Nurses: the cure for what ails us
A new Health Affairs/RWJF policy brief highlights federal and state laws which limit the extent to which providers. A predicted clinician shortage will worsen as millions of people become insured as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In Continue Reading …
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