Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Medicaid
The Quality of Medicaid compared with Private Coverage
Is Medicaid worse than no insurance at all? Of course not. But it is not as good as private coverage for quality. Medicaid, the much-maligned , seeks to emulate the effectiveness of private insurance coverage. A recent study explores hospital-based 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 …
2013 Affordable Care Act Update
The Affordable Care Act has brought some of the most fundamental changes to health care and health insurance in a generation. The biggest cultural change – the individual mandate – will not get underway until next year (2014). However, three 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 …
Why are patients readmitted to hospitals?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided to limit payments to hospitals most likely to have patients readmitted. However, the data suggest that readmissions are best correlated with patient-specific issues. With significant impact on patients’ quality of life Continue Reading …
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