Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Access to Care
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The cost-reductions built into the are based upon the assumption that as the number of uninsured decreases, the need for federal subsidies to hospitals providing uncompensated care will also decrease. However, 25 states have declined Medicaid expansions, and in total Continue Reading …
The Times Are Not A-Changin’
When President Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, universal health care seemed like a real possibility. Fast forward seven years later: Employer-sponsored health care is still the main game in town. Has the impacted in the last few Continue Reading …
Give the people what they want
Under the , eligibility for Medicaid benefits was expanded to include low-income childless adults. This provision has proven to be immensely controversial, however, and 23 states have refused to accept it*. A survey published in Health Affairs asked low-income adult Continue Reading …
Should Congress Reauthorize CHIP?
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been very helpful in providing children access to health care including preventative services such as well child visits and chronic illness screening since its inception. CHIP also provides much needed funding to the Continue Reading …
Is non-expansion a death sentence?
The journey to health care reform has surely been a long one, but for all of the twists and turns, the road to the may culminate in an unanticipated dead-end. Now that we have established health insurance exchanges and expanded Continue Reading …