Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Kameron Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP
Kameron Matthews MD, JD is a board-certified family physician and currently serves as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care at the Veterans Health Administration in Washington DC. She earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and her law degree from the University of Chicago.Trading Places
Americans are often pre-occupied worrying about people entering the United States across the Mexican border. Ever wonder if Mexicans worry about the nearly 2/3 of the border population that enters Mexico for health care? The 32 counties in Texas that Continue Reading …
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 …
Eliminating Duplicative Government Spending
The Government Accountability Office was tasked to find areas of duplication within the federal government. They discovered 81 potential areas of overlap, three of which refer to health care and public health. The General Accountability Office was asked to report Continue Reading …
The Individual Mandate in Massachusetts
Insurance mandates are commonplace for car insurance. Subsidies promote such activity as buying a home or higher education. For health care, the debate continues over whether mandates or subsidies are the best policy tool to foster greater coverage and expand Continue Reading …
Taking A Bite out of the Big Apple
Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act requires certain restaurants to report calorie information on menu boards beginning March 23, 2011; New York City recently implemented a similar law. On March 31, 2008, an amended New York City regulation became Continue Reading …