Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Matthew Stampfl
Matthew Stampfl is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine.
Seize the Day: Expand Medicaid
Infant mortality is a common metric for grading healthcare systems internationally. By that standard, the United States is far from the top of the class, with an abnormally high infant mortality rate for its level of development. While there are Continue Reading …
A Dripping Faucet of Cheap yet Useless Care
The most expensive health care in the world can be found in the United States, where we spend the equivalent of $9,403 on every man, woman, and child. Part of the explanation for that exorbitant spending lies in low-value care Continue Reading …
Newly Eligible Cost 21% Less to Cover
“We can’t afford it” is a common objection to expanding access to health care in the United States. The obvious rebuttal proclaims that we can’t afford not to expand given the costs associated with being uninsured. Either way, policy makers Continue Reading …
That’s where the money is
When asked why he robbed banks, the famous robber Wille Sutton supposedly said: “Because that’s where the money is.” End-of-life medical spending has long attracted attention from healthcare policymakers for the same reason. Medicare spends a quarter of its budget Continue Reading …
An Outlier in Pharmaceutical Advertising
Among the community of nations, the United States often stands as an outlier. It numbers among the three countries without the metric system and now finds itself in a similarly small group in rejecting the Paris Agreement on climate change. Continue Reading …
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