Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance (ESHI)
A Policy Prescription for 2014
Regardless of what you think about the Affordable Care Act, and regardless of whether or not you are hoping for its ultimate failure or success, even under optimal conditions, it will fall far short of the goal the Institute of Medicine Continue Reading …
Medicaid expansion benefits emergency departments
Twenty-five states have still refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act; that’s bad news for ERs everywhere. A recent article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine analyzed the revenue increases due to emergency physicians for services delivered to Continue Reading …
Cost-shifting: no longer a concern?
A study refutes the theory of cost-shifting in health care and suggests private cost growth mirrors Medicare. Increasing costs of health care in the United States have been longstanding concerns. Several solutions have been proposed to address this issue; one Continue Reading …
Will primary care fail us?
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is set to take place in just over half of the states. Additional private insurance expansions using health insurance exchanges are set to take place in the next 100 days. However, providing health insurance Continue Reading …
Employer mandates: essential to reform?
Two states currently have employer mandates to provide health care for workers. New data from San Francisco updates the effectiveness of this strategy to insure America. In January 2008, the city of San Francisco implemented the Health Care Security Ordinance. Continue Reading …
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