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Category: Affordable Care Act
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 …
Back of the Envelope
Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …
Maryland sets hospital rates
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most sweeping piece of healthcare legislation passed in decades. While authorized at the federal level, much of the implementation of the law depends on state-level execution. From decisions on Medicaid expansion to shaky Continue Reading …
The welcome mat effect
Immigration status and insurance status: Two social factors that we know determine an individual’s ability to access health care. Yet the question remains, how do these two factors interact? Furthermore, how do these factors affect children in immigrant families? In Continue Reading …
Lawsuit aims to kill subsidy
As an income-less medical student, I would be one of the 7.1 million people who have signed up for Obamacare this year—except I live in Texas, one of the 21 states that elected to not expand Medicaid. At the same Continue Reading …