Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Affordability & Delivery System
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 …
Health insurance hampers entrepreneurship
Employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) is the most common type of health coverage for a majority of Americans. Fifty-nine percent of adults under 65 rely on ESHI; just about one half of all Americans (including the elderly and children) do the Continue Reading …
Coordinated Care: Show me the money!
Policy makers are scrambling to find ways to reduce the cost of health care. One mechanism, converting a fee-for-service system to a prospective payment system, faces uphill battles at home and abroad. Proposed changes in health care delivery and financing, Continue Reading …
Price transparency for health care
The high cost of health insurance in the US has been a longstanding problem; some experts have argued that the answer to lowering health care costs involves creating a competitive market for consumers. The strategy is simple: drive health care Continue Reading …
Non-Physician Clinicians
With sixteen million more Americans expected to gain health care coverage in the coming years as a result of the Affordable Care Act, access to actual health care providers may become more difficult. This may be especially true for patients Continue Reading …
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