Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH
Kyle Fischer is the fellowship director in health policy and leadership at the University of Maryland Department of Emergency Medicine. He received a combined MD/MPH from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and subsequently completed an emergency medicine residency at Drexel University.
Thoughts and Prayers Won’t Cure Gun Violence
Thoughts and Prayers Won’t Cure Gun Violence from Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH
Medicaid Expansion: An Improved Safety Net
Nearly 50 million Americans lacked health insurance prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with the bulk of the uninsured being low-income individuals. This combination of poverty and the uncertainty over health (or unexpected health care costs) Continue Reading …
ACA’s Biggest Winners: Long-Term Uninsured
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created the largest expansion of health insurance coverage in the United States in the roughly fifty years since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. However, the ACA differs from prior expansions which largely targeted specific Continue Reading …
Medicaid is a financial boon for hospitals
One of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act was to extend coverage broadly across the population: to the sick and uninsurable, to the healthy, and to the poor. A major mechanism to accomplish this was the ACA’s Medicaid Continue Reading …