Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Measuring physician performance
The Affordable Care Act calls for physician-specific performance measures to be introduced in the coming years. Lessons from Florida and Colorado offer helpful suggestions. In order to improve quality of care, quality measurements and reporting must provide comprehensive and comparable Continue Reading …
Health insurance hampers entrepreneurship
Employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) is the most common type of health coverage for a majority of Americans. Fifty-nine percent of adults under 65 rely on ESHI; just about one half of all Americans (including the elderly and children) do the Continue Reading …
Coordinated Care: Show me the money!
Policy makers are scrambling to find ways to reduce the cost of health care. One mechanism, converting a fee-for-service system to a prospective payment system, faces uphill battles at home and abroad. Proposed changes in health care delivery and financing, Continue Reading …
Price transparency for health care
The high cost of health insurance in the US has been a longstanding problem; some experts have argued that the answer to lowering health care costs involves creating a competitive market for consumers. The strategy is simple: drive health care Continue Reading …
Advocacy for Sale?
Politics makes strange bedfellows. However, advocacy organizations should inform the public and policy makers about the financial relationships with for-profit entities with whom advocacy groups consort. Health advocacy organizations (HAOs) are typically organizations of prominent, trusted stakeholders who conduct campaigns Continue Reading …
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