Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Access to Care
Raising the Medicare Age to 67
Changes to Medicare would merely shift costs to the private sector or onto seniors. One solution to nation’s deficit and debt problems, by reducing entitlement spending, is an increase in Medicare eligibility age. A recent analysis by the CBO found Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2013
My prescription for health reform expands on the themes of tax reform, Medicaid, and physicians’ annual adventures with their own congressionally imposed fiscal cliff. Dysfunction and partisan bickering in Washington, DC has led to the nation approaching and plummeting off Continue Reading …
2013 Affordable Care Act Update
The Affordable Care Act has brought some of the most fundamental changes to health care and health insurance in a generation. The biggest cultural change – the individual mandate – will not get underway until next year (2014). However, three Continue Reading …
2012 Year in Review (Part 1 of 4)
Access to Care Although the Affordable Care Act will grant Medicaid to nearly 17 million new enrollees, new research suggests that for both public and private paying patients. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was used as a model to Continue Reading …
Health care for the homeless
Homeless populations suffer from chronic illness, mental illness, and substance abuse in addition to the daily difficulties finding food and shelter. Outreach is needed to ensure this population receives adequate health care. The chronically homeless most often suffer from chronic Continue Reading …
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