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Category: Health reform
ACA Sign Up Deadline Looming
Have you signed up for health care on HealthCare.Gov? Or do you have your own through your employer or spouse? Covered under your parents’ plan? Let us know your experiences in the comments! And in the meantime, watch this Snoop Continue Reading …
The ACA, Medicaid, and the ED: What’s the Bottom Line?
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/Episode14Edited.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine Podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks Continue Reading …
Medicaid expands for adults
As of January 1st, the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid eligibility requirements to include adults living at or below 138% of the federal poverty level (about $15,000 per year for an individual). However, several state and local governments, including California, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Washington D.C., took advantage of Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2014
Regardless of what you think about the Affordable Care Act, and regardless of whether or not you are hoping for its ultimate failure or success, even under optimal conditions, it will fall far short of the goal the Institute of Medicine Continue Reading …
How well do doctors know the ACA?
In the article “Physician Knowledge of and Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the authors survey otolaryngology surgeons using the Kaiser Family Foundation’s (KFF) 10 question health reform quiz. KFF published results from the general adult population Continue Reading …
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