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Wonk Wednesday
Sometimes there is just too much material to review in the course of 1 month. Here are some important findings from the health policy literature that we had to leave as left-overs. Enjoy!
Cost: A Side Effect of Care
Physicians often underestimate the costs of care thereby imposing a potentially catastrophic side effect on patients. Health care costs consume an increasing proportion of the GDP while individual Americans face an increasing financial burden from medical bills. Two recent articles Continue Reading …
The Smoking Gun
The authors of this study sought to create the most comprehensive evaluation to date analyzing gun ownership data over the past thirty years. They did so while controlling for eighteen potential confounding factors including violent crime rate, number of hunting Continue Reading …
The ACA Coverage Gap & Health Disparities
Lack of access to health insurance has long been recognized as a critical barrier to health care and a key driver of health and health care disparities. While the Affordable Care Act was envisioned as a comprehensive solution to the challenge of uninsurance among impoverished and low-income populations in the United States, variable state-level participation in the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, in the wake of the June 2012 Supreme Court decision, has created the unanticipated reality of a continued insurance gap for many of the most vulnerable. Continue Reading …
PCHM’s do not reduce overall costs
Is bending the cost curve possible with an innovative strategy like the patient-centered medical home? As implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) gains traction, novel care such as and Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) are emerging Continue Reading …
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