Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Is the Affordable Care Act toxic to workers?
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce is a nurse-authored paper that appeared in a recent Heritage Foundation Backgrounder. In it, the author concludes that the Affordable Care Act does not address the root cause Continue Reading …
Health Information Exchanges
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/Episode16final.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physicians Advocates podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks with Dr. Ellana Stinson, a practicing emergency physician Continue Reading …
Place the doctor-patient relationship first [OP/note]
I recently attended a half-day medical event: Primary Care in the 21st Century. Expecting to hear the latest and greatest on new treatments, best care for chronic conditions, and integrating behavioral health into my practice, I was sorely disappointed that Continue Reading …
Primary Care Access Pre-ACA
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes roll out, many critics and proponents have voiced concerns about provider availability in the wake of massive increases of insured persons. In fact, recent data suggest that the uninsured rate has already fallen Continue Reading …
Back of the Envelope
Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …