Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Living up to Lady Liberty’s Creed
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” — The Statue of Liberty Two major political Continue Reading …
Primary Care’s Impact on Outcomes
Expanding the primary care workforce is viewed as a solution to the health needs of Americans. However, current research suggests that more nuanced metrics are necessary to reveal the ideal physician-to-population ratio. While expanding the primary care physician (PCP) workforce Continue Reading …
Lighting It Up
This Fourth of July, light up a firecracker and not a cigarette. Cigarettes kill. But removing these dangerous products – or at least a common flavor that makes them more acceptable – seems far from likely. Tobacco products are responsible Continue Reading …
Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan
Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan for Medicare would save costs to the federal government at the expense of senior citizens by fundamentally restructuring this defined benefit entitlement to a defined contribution. Is it good or bad? Ask the voters. You know Continue Reading …
Social Security Saves Lives
Money can’t buy happiness; but it can keep you living. A new study demonstrates that by preventing poverty among senior citizens Social Security likely contributed to declines in mortality among Americans over age sixty-five. Since its inception in 1940, the Continue Reading …
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