Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Access to Care
Does Health Insurance Help?
While it has been estimated that 45,000 Americans perish unnecessarily each year due to lack of health insurance, there has been some mixed evidence about the mortality benefit of expanding coverage, particularly Medicaid. A study in Oregon showed no clear Continue Reading …
Is the Affordable Care Act toxic to workers?
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce is a nurse-authored paper that appeared in a recent Heritage Foundation Backgrounder. In it, the author concludes that the Affordable Care Act does not address the root cause Continue Reading …
Primary Care Access Pre-ACA
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes roll out, many critics and proponents have voiced concerns about provider availability in the wake of massive increases of insured persons. In fact, recent data suggest that the uninsured rate has already fallen Continue Reading …
Back of the Envelope
Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …
The welcome mat effect
Immigration status and insurance status: Two social factors that we know determine an individual’s ability to access health care. Yet the question remains, how do these two factors interact? Furthermore, how do these factors affect children in immigrant families? In Continue Reading …