Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Orlando Sola, MD, MPH
Orlando Sola is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center. He trained at the Institute for Family Health/Mount Sinai Hospital. He obtained his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
An Ounce of Prevention
The projected benefits of the (ACA) are based on several central tenants inherent to the law, such as the expected improvement in utilization of cost-saving preventative medicine when access to insurance is increased and cost to patients is decreased. The Continue Reading …
Should We Subsidize the Sick?
The projected savings from the are not solely from the health care exchanges: a large portion of savings stem from re-allocating medical resources towards the sickest patient populations. By improving the health of the sickest patients with high levels of Continue Reading …
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The cost-reductions built into the are based upon the assumption that as the number of uninsured decreases, the need for federal subsidies to hospitals providing uncompensated care will also decrease. However, 25 states have declined Medicaid expansions, and in total Continue Reading …
The welcome mat effect
Immigration status and insurance status: Two social factors that we know determine an individual’s ability to access health care. Yet the question remains, how do these two factors interact? Furthermore, how do these factors affect children in immigrant families? In Continue Reading …
Cultivating Latino Policymakers to Ensure Health Care for All
With over 53 million in the United States, and more than 50,000 gaining the right to vote each month, Latinos are becoming increasingly influential in the American political sphere. Democrats’ promises of reform in areas ranging from immigration to health Continue Reading …