Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
The Times Are Not A-Changin’
When President Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, universal health care seemed like a real possibility. Fast forward seven years later: Employer-sponsored health care is still the main game in town. Has the impacted in the last few Continue Reading …
Give the people what they want
Under the , eligibility for Medicaid benefits was expanded to include low-income childless adults. This provision has proven to be immensely controversial, however, and 23 states have refused to accept it*. A survey published in Health Affairs asked low-income adult Continue Reading …
Global Payments Change Spending & Quality
In an effort to slow the growth of health care spending, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts, an early reform state, entered into alternative quality contracts (AQC) with providers. AQCs are two-sided contracts that share savings if spending is Continue Reading …
Is sex safer?
Emergency contraception (EC) is a safe, moderately effective option to prevent an unintended pregnancy. It is one of the FDA-approved, family planning options that health insurance plans are required to cover without any copayment through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Continue Reading …
Taking a Lesson from Taiwan
Government payers like are attempting to move away from the current fee-for-service model of health care billing—which some believe provides incentive for doctors to perform unnecessary tests and procedures—in favor of a new payment model: . Pay-for-performance programs link performance Continue Reading …
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