Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Should Congress Reauthorize CHIP?
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been very helpful in providing children access to health care including preventative services such as well child visits and chronic illness screening since its inception. CHIP also provides much needed funding to the Continue Reading …
Auld Lang Syne
Founder and Executive Editor Cedric Dark takes us on a 5 minute tour of our accomplishments last year.
2014 Year in Review
The year began with great news out of Oregon and the release of more data from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, one of the two best studies we have on the effect of insurance on health care and costs (the Continue Reading …
Smaller is Better
More than 3.9 million “ambulatory care-sensitive” admissions of adults were made to US hospitals in 2010, with as much as 40% of them being preventable. But which primary care practices are best at preventing these kind of avoidable hospitalizations? Researchers Continue Reading …
The Best Tweets of 2014
Merry Christmas to All; And to All a Good Tweet… You’re about to hear a lot about this study: Expanding Medicaid doesn’t decrease ER use. It increases it. http://t.co/B4rrfP6gAo — Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) January 2, 2014 The conservative case Continue Reading …