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Category: Affordable Care Act
A Policy Prescription for 2014
Regardless of what you think about the Affordable Care Act, and regardless of whether or not you are hoping for its ultimate failure or success, even under optimal conditions, it will fall far short of the goal the Institute of Medicine Continue Reading …
How well do doctors know the ACA?
In the article “Physician Knowledge of and Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the authors survey otolaryngology surgeons using the Kaiser Family Foundation’s (KFF) 10 question health reform quiz. KFF published results from the general adult population Continue Reading …
The ACA Coverage Gap & Health Disparities
Lack of access to health insurance has long been recognized as a critical barrier to health care and a key driver of health and health care disparities. While the Affordable Care Act was envisioned as a comprehensive solution to the challenge of uninsurance among impoverished and low-income populations in the United States, variable state-level participation in the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, in the wake of the June 2012 Supreme Court decision, has created the unanticipated reality of a continued insurance gap for many of the most vulnerable. Continue Reading …
Medicaid expansion benefits emergency departments
Twenty-five states have still refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act; that’s bad news for ERs everywhere. A recent article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine analyzed the revenue increases due to emergency physicians for services delivered to Continue Reading …
Will ObamaCare Flood the ER?
This guest post by emergency physician Seth Trueger reviews the evidence behind the common thought that expanding insurance under ObamaCare will lead to more visits to the ER. Originally appeared September 30, 2013 on MDAware.org. Open enrollment for the ACA Continue Reading …
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