Archive for January 2014
Enough young adults signed up for ACA to prevent “death spiral”
Gail Wilensky, PhD, an economist and Senior Fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation, wrote a blog today that sheds light on just who has signed up for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). This ran in the JAMA Forum, a team of leading health economists, health policy experts and legal scholars who to provide…
Read MoreDr. Martin Luther King on health care equity. It’s related, but different from health equity.
In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King ad-libbed a line in a speech in Chicago to the Medical Committee for Human Rights, saying, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Almost 50 years later, as attention increasingly turns toward shrinking the gap in disease rates and life…
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