Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
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When providers can’t win, patients also lose
Many have likely experienced the following scenario in their own doctor’s offices – a physician who seems far more engrossed in their computer screen than the patient sitting in front of them, typically in various forms of undress, uncomfortably talking Continue Reading …

The First Wealth is Health
The Affordable Care Act provides another attempt to bring healthcare into the national commons, making healthcare accessible to more people. Reports estimate that through the Affordable Care Act. They are newly insured and can derive the healthcare benefits from primary Continue Reading …

The First Wealth is Health
What are we missing out on? What else might we spend that money on? From a personal standpoint, I would like to pay for college for my sons. And I would like them to go to the school of their Continue Reading …

The First Wealth is Health
We hear a lot about healthcare spending in the United States. We spend more on healthcare than any other nation in the world. The healthcare economy in the U.S. is larger than the total economy of all but 5 nations Continue Reading …

Balancing low cost insurance and personal financial risk — How the ACA helps us all share the balancing act
Cheaper by far. Your monthly premium is just $200. Twenty-four hundred dollars total per year. Your co-pay for a doctors appointment is $30 and your medication has a co-insurance which means a percentage of the total cost of the medicine Continue Reading …