Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: OP/notes
2010 Year in Review
The past year has been more monumental for health policy unlike any other time since the enactment of Medicare. Yet, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, delivered by Congressional Democrats and President Obama, will be viciously challenged by Republicans Continue Reading …
When Politics Trumps Science
As happened following the controversial decisions of the United States Preventive Services Task Force on breast cancer screening, another controversy embroils the independent panel regarding prostate screening. A report last month from the Wall Street Journal describes the recent decision Continue Reading …
Reform left-overs make for tasty election issue
A year ago, the American people were up in arms over the health reform debate unfolding in Congress. Nevertheless, after a long and bitter winter, Congress proceeded to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the spring of Continue Reading …
The Truce Between Choice and Life
Conservatives argue that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violates the “truce” between pro-choice and pro-life. We recommend a strategy to negotiate a new, longer lasting truce. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, PL 111-148) specifies that Continue Reading …
Life After Health Reform
The hazards of sickness, accident, invalidism, involuntary employement, and old age should be provided for through insurance. (Theodore Roosevelt, 1912)
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