Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Decreasing Disparities in Health Coverage
Implemented in 2010, the ’s major coverage expansion was designed to improve the accessibility and affordability of health insurance. Although the ACA’s coverage expansion should decrease disparities in health care coverage among racial and ethnic minorities, both immigration status and Continue Reading …
Obamacare: Cheaper and Better than Health Insurance pre-ACA
Despite scary media headlines about rising health insurance costs due to the (ACA), this study found that 3 in 4 self-employed adults ages 18-64 paid less after-tax on the ACA Marketplaces in 2014 than they paid in 2012. Before the Continue Reading …
Emergency Department Closures Increase Patient Mortality
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/media/aaem-epa-podcast-episode-20.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks Continue Reading …
An Ounce of Prevention
The projected benefits of the (ACA) are based on several central tenants inherent to the law, such as the expected improvement in utilization of cost-saving preventative medicine when access to insurance is increased and cost to patients is decreased. The 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 …
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