Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Access to Care
Unlearn What You Have Learned
The history of employer sponsored health insurance (ESI) is long and colorful. Given the chance, it is a story we would rewrite. Removed of our hindsight, might we actually arrive with a better health care financing system? Few would argue Continue Reading …
Thirty Million Outside the “Golden Hour”
In the US, cohesive trauma systems began to coalesce in the 1960s, largely based on the triage, transport and resuscitation concepts derived from WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam War. Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society Continue Reading …
Decisions, Decisions
Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) have recently become popular in health insurance, with 30% of covered employees enrolled in CDHPs in 2017. These plans have high deductibles, lower premiums, and a health spending account which is usually tax-incentivized. They expose enrollees Continue Reading …
Blunt Tools not the Best Policy Instruments
How do high deductible health plans (HDHP) affect our health care system? Since 2004, HDHP’s have increased in popularity, especially amongst employers and government entities looking to provide coverage to workers. Low premium and high deductible plans are designed to Continue Reading …
The Intolerable Side Effect of Access to Care
Debates around health reform are often viewed through a political lens. Assessing the outcome of the ACA is no different. If the central goal of health reform is to increase access to care, there can be little debate as to Continue Reading …
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