Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
The cost-sharing sweet spot
Value-based insurance designs (VBID) provide cost incentives to encourage individuals to utilize certain highly effective medications in order to cut costs while improving quality and health outcomes. While this has mostly been done in the private market, less is known Continue Reading …
Your Boss’ Business?
This post is adapted from MDaware.org with permission. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks both to expand insurance coverage as well as to ensure that offered plans include substantive benefits, including coverage of preventative services, so that Americans have access to Continue Reading …
The Provocateurs (Episode 2)
The July episode of the Provocateurs is LIVE on YouTube featuring Renée Volny Darko, Cedric Dark, Tyree Winters and a guest appearance by Todd Johnson. Watch it now:
Does Health Insurance Help?
While it has been estimated that 45,000 Americans perish unnecessarily each year due to lack of health insurance, there has been some mixed evidence about the mortality benefit of expanding coverage, particularly Medicaid. A study in Oregon showed no clear Continue Reading …
Health Policy Twitterati 2014
Two years ago, I compiled a list of the . The methodology was elegantly simple, look back several months and count up the number of times I (@PolicyRx) re-tweeted a user’s comments or links. I repeated the same thing about this time Continue Reading …
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