Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Rachel Solnick
Rachel Solnick, MD is an emergency medicine resident at Yale. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.
Politicians Play Doctor in Texas
In Texas, as in all other states, a person who is unable to make his or her own medical decisions has the right to an advance directive (AD) for restricting medical treatment; that is, unless that person is pregnant. A Continue Reading …
Arming the informed consumer
In most sectors of the economy, the more you pay, the higher quality you get. Medical diagnostics and imaging are an exception to this rule, with some tests priced at 10 times the cost of other facilities in the same Continue Reading …
Maybe we don’t need the employer mandate
Although written into law in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for employers to provide health insurance has been delayed and modified until 2016. Now some are asking- would we be better off just eliminating the employer mandate altogether? Continue Reading …
Lawsuit aims to kill subsidy
As an income-less medical student, I would be one of the 7.1 million people who have signed up for Obamacare this year—except I live in Texas, one of the 21 states that elected to not expand Medicaid. At the same Continue Reading …