Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: OP/notes
Republican Congress, Obama White House: Now What?
With the Congress fully in control by the Republican party after Tuesday’s election, the fate of the Affordable Care Act has reached a critical moment. No doubt that Republicans will continue to take symbolic votes to repeal the entire Affordable Continue Reading …
Politicians Play Doctor in Texas
In Texas, as in all other states, a person who is unable to make his or her own medical decisions has the right to an advance directive (AD) for restricting medical treatment; that is, unless that person is pregnant. A Continue Reading …
Decision 2014
The 2014 midterm Elections will be held on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014. This may be news to many. Only 52% of the public state that they are paying attention to the election and if previous midterms are any indication fewer Continue Reading …
Balancing low cost insurance and personal financial risk — How the ACA helps us all share the balancing act
Cheaper by far. Your monthly premium is just $200. Twenty-four hundred dollars total per year. Your co-pay for a doctor’s appointment is $30 and your medication has a “co-insurance” which means a percentage of the total cost of the medicine Continue Reading …
Balancing low cost insurance and personal financial risk — How the ACA helps us all share the balancing act
Used to be you had the choice of buying insurance or not. Or, more likely, you got insurance from your employer or could not afford insurance because it was too expensive. Your employer paid your employment-based insurance totally, or in Continue Reading …