Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Access to Care
Primary Care’s Impact on Outcomes
Expanding the primary care workforce is viewed as a solution to the health needs of Americans. However, current research suggests that more nuanced metrics are necessary to reveal the ideal physician-to-population ratio. While expanding the primary care physician (PCP) workforce Continue Reading …
Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan
Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan for Medicare would save costs to the federal government at the expense of senior citizens by fundamentally restructuring this defined benefit entitlement to a defined contribution. Is it good or bad? Ask the voters. You know Continue Reading …
MassHealth’s P4P Program Fails to Produce
Conflicting with evidence from other studies, an evaluation of MassHealth’s Medicaid Pay-for-Performance plan failed to show a significant effect on quality improvement measures despite spending $2.6 million for incentives. Pay for Performance (P4P) is the concept of using financial incentives Continue Reading …
Trading Places
Americans are often pre-occupied worrying about people entering the United States across the Mexican border. Ever wonder if Mexicans worry about the nearly 2/3 of the border population that enters Mexico for health care? The 32 counties in Texas that Continue Reading …
Honoring our Veterans
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.” (Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865) Since 1946, the Veterans Health Administration has had a hand in the education of America’s physicians. According Continue Reading …