Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Elizabeth Wiley, MD, JD, MPH
Dr. Wiley is a Preventive Medicine resident at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Complex Billing adds to Health Care Headache
International comparisons invariably reveal that the cost of health care in the U.S. is embarrassingly high with disparate return on investment in terms of access. There has been much speculation about the cause of this discrepancy, ranging from “the U.S. Continue Reading …
Medicaid crowd out: hype or reality?
With Medicaid expansion underway, questions about whether Medicaid coverage “crowds out” private coverage have reemerged. Critics of Medicaid expansion contend that public health insurance causes individuals to forego private coverage. A recent study published in Inquiry sought to quantify this Continue Reading …
Does Health Insurance Help?
While it has been estimated that 45,000 Americans perish unnecessarily each year due to lack of health insurance, there has been some mixed evidence about the mortality benefit of expanding coverage, particularly Medicaid. A study in Oregon showed no clear Continue Reading …
Toward GME Accountability
An analysis of over 750 institutions shows that fewer than one-quarter of doctors train as primary care providers. Dr. Candice Chen and colleagues attempted to assess outcomes of the nearly $10 billion federal Medicare and more than $3 billion federal-state Continue Reading …
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