Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance (ESHI)
Consumer-directed health care
Consumer-Directed Health Plans have increased in popularity but are only marginally helpful. Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) intend to control costs by shifting the financial risk of health care decision-making from payers to patients. CDHPs require consumers to enroll in a Continue Reading …
Raising the Medicare Age to 67
Changes to Medicare would merely shift costs to the private sector or onto seniors. One solution to nation’s deficit and debt problems, by reducing entitlement spending, is an increase in Medicare eligibility age. A recent analysis by the CBO found Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2013
My prescription for health reform expands on the themes of tax reform, Medicaid, and physicians’ annual adventures with their own congressionally imposed fiscal cliff. Dysfunction and partisan bickering in Washington, DC has led to the nation approaching and plummeting off Continue Reading …
2012 Year in Review (Part 1 of 4)
Access to Care Although the Affordable Care Act will grant Medicaid to nearly 17 million new enrollees, new research suggests that for both public and private paying patients. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was used as a model to Continue Reading …
Will the Affordable Care Act kill jobs?
Many public policy decisions have impacts distant from their original intent. Public expansion of health insurance has often been associated with alterations in the labor force. So does the Affordable Care Act kill jobs or save them? For many in Continue Reading …
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