Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: OP/notes
Sleep over Safety?
Dr. Atul Grover, the Chief Public Policy Officer of the AAMC, alerted me to the fact that Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association were up in arms over the current study deliberating between the 2003 and 2011 ACGME Continue Reading …
Get What You Pay For & Pay for What You Get
Andrew Sprung and I had a great conversation about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that premiums are rising (see the Storify below). Our view: premiums are generally flat. There is a lot of variation around this, mostly geographic, and also Continue Reading …
Narrow Networks: The Result of Competition, not the Barrier
This fantastic article by Dan Diamond in Forbes on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s gibberish on health care during his 60 Minutes interview sparked some great discussion on Twitter – see the Storify below. Dan makes an amazing analogy: Blaming Obamacare for insurance companies’ behavior is Continue Reading …
When providers can’t win, patients also lose
Many have likely experienced the following scenario in their own doctor’s offices – a physician who seems far more engrossed in their computer screen than the patient sitting in front of them, typically in various forms of undress, uncomfortably talking Continue Reading …
The First Wealth is Health
The Affordable Care Act provides another attempt to bring healthcare into the national commons, making healthcare accessible to more people. Reports estimate that through the Affordable Care Act. They are newly insured and can derive the healthcare benefits from primary Continue Reading …