Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Affordability & Delivery System
Inconsistent access to care in Arizona
The effects of insurance coverage on access to care in Arizona provides a startling lesson of the problems with inconsistent coverage. People cycling on and off insurance tend to forgo care and necessary medication. As the price tag of Continue Reading …
Keeping it in the Community
Colorado has 140 community health centers (CHCs) that provide care for 9 percent of the state’s population and 36 percent of Colorado’s Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus clients. Community health centers are a potential solution to health care costs Continue Reading …
Single-Payer’s Impact on Physician Income
“No boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.” Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian medicare This study follows 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 …
Social Security Saves Lives
Money can’t buy happiness; but it can keep you living. A new study demonstrates that by preventing poverty among senior citizens Social Security likely contributed to declines in mortality among Americans over age sixty-five. Since its inception in 1940, the Continue Reading …