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Non-financial barriers to care
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was developed to help reduce affordability barriers to accessing medical care. With PPACA, the increase in affordability of insurance and the number of individuals covered will eliminate some, if not all, financial Continue Reading …
Tho’ you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Currently, employer-sponsored health insurance is treated as a tax free benefit. While this encourages employers and employees to obtain coverage, it is a limitless subsidy. The Cadillac Tax would cap this subsidy in coming years. Beginning January 1st, 2018, the Continue Reading …
Shared Responsibility
Cost sharing schemes can reduce over-utilization of health care services. Implementation of copays in the Alabama CHIP program demonstrated savings when patients and taxpayers shared the responsibility to pay for care. The passage of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Continue Reading …
SNMA | Annual Medical Education Conference | Atlanta, GA
Champions of Change: Improving our Potential, Enhancing our Performance Dr. Cedric Dark discussed the “State of Healthcare: the Basics” for the Student National Medical Association Annual Medical Education Conference in Atlanta, GA on Saturday April 7, 2012. The purpose of Continue Reading …
EMRs: Airbags for when your doctor crashes you
EMRs have the potential to prevent dangerous medication errors – I certainly have been saved a few times by them – but in this study appear to function mostly as a rescue device once an adverse event has already taken Continue Reading …
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