Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Access to Care
What if every Doc was paid Medicare rates?
Currently, physicians earn reimbursement from multiple different payers such as Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurers. If doctors were paid only according to Medicare rates, most would be losers – specialists more than others.
Same Sex Disparities in Access to Care
Same-sex couples have a level of access to insurance coverage and health care that is intermediate to that of married and unmarried different-sex couples. The authors of this study analyzed data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, a large Continue Reading …
Insurance Exchanges
An insurance exchange provides managed competition through the use of “sponsors” or collective purchasing agents who negotiate with insurers and offer individuals a menu of choices among different health insurance plans.
Reflections from Haiti: Chaos to Camaraderie
Doctor Stanley Frencher recounts recent experiences of working in a field hospital in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti. But in the end, he ponders is the health care system of Haiti all that different from his home of inner-city Detroit?
The French Connection
The French health care system is viewed by some as the best in the world; multiple payers combine to provide universal care for all of France’s legal residents under the principle of social solidarity. At the turn of the millennium, Continue Reading …
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