Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: OP/notes
Family planning & Medicaid
Expansion of Medicaid has been one of the most controversial provisions in health reform. With the Supreme Court’s June 2012 ruling that states could opt out of the Medicaid expansion, nearly half the states in the country are leaning towards Continue Reading …
The Math of Medicaid Expansion
The following 2 minute video is excerpted from the RAND Corporation. It explains the effects on states that opt-out of the Medicaid expansion scheduled for 2014.
Celebrating 5 Years!
Five years ago today, Policy Prescriptions debuted online. In that time, we have grown from our 2 founders to a multidisciplinary group of a dozen individuals devoted to patient care and improving the policy decisions that affect their health. Over the Continue Reading …
[Anecdotes] If judges can practice medicine, why can’t doctors decide malpractice cases?
Judge Michael Baylson has ruled that a second child awaiting a lung transplant in a Philadelphia hospital must be considered for adult lungs, sidestepping the current policies of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). While this is great news Continue Reading …
[Anecdotes] Saving Sarah
Headlines have been made in the past few days regarding a 10-year old girl – Sarah Murnaghan – with cystic fibrosis who is in need of a lung transplant. Her parents have successfully sued the government to get her listed on Continue Reading …
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