Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Vidya Eswaran, MD
Dr. Eswaran is an Emergency Medicine Resident at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.
Access to Specialists Worse with Medicaid
Increase outpatient services and thereby decrease expensive emergency department visits, or so the popular axiom goes. This only works, however, if there are enough outpatient visits to be had. This study by et al. examines the availability of outpatient orthopedic Continue Reading …
Lower Readmissions for Medicare Advantage
Reducing has been a quality measure which has recently received significant attention as a way to potentially decrease our nation’s healthcare expenditures. By improving outpatient resources and ensuring continuity of care after discharge, policymakers hope to decrease preventable readmissions. There Continue Reading …
Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich
Soaring health care costs have been a popular topic of discussion in the public arena, even in the midst of a recent spending slowdown between 2004 and 2013. The authors of this study investigated how health care expenditures differed between Continue Reading …
2016 Presidential Election Score Card
We are pleased to present our 2016 Presidential Election scorecard. The policies upon which we have rated the candidates are derived from Dr. which suggests there are 5 key healthcare issues at play this year: Prescription drug prices Consumers’ issues Continue Reading …
How strongly does coverage affect access?
With the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act extending coverage to citizens with income less than 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL), it was hoped that the newly insured would have greater access to healthcare, thereby improving Continue Reading …
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