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Compromise: If you are Congress, it’s what you do

February 24, 2017 ACA, Affordable Care Act, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Cedric Dark, health policy, Healthcare, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Uninsured

Some believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is destined for failure and that rising prices in the individual market indicate it has entered a death

Policywise

Freestanding emergency departments: Potential lessons for policy makers

January 6, 2017 acute care, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Emergency Medicine, health policy, Matthew Stampfl, medical students

Matthew Stampfl, a second-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, recently addressed the following question: “Can freestanding emergency departments expand access to acute care

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The return of the house call

December 27, 2016 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Chris Frey, health policy, medical students, Readmissions

As the population ages, the medical needs of the oldest and most infirm are projected to greatly weigh on America’s healthcare system. In an attempt to

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Healthcare market consolidation: What the dialysis industry tells us

December 6, 2016 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Kevin Furman Erickson, Economics, ethics, health policy

There’s an American aversion to anti-competitive market practices. A capitalist society assumes that competition means more innovation, more choices, and lower prices, and that market

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Soda taxes win big at polls despite industry lobbying

November 18, 2016 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, health policy, public health, Stephanie Morain

Buried under the headlines of the recent controversial election is a big public health win for five U.S. cities. On Election Day, voters in Boulder,

Progress Notes

The cost of medical innovation

October 26, 2015 health policy

Not long ago, hepatitis C was a haunting virus. Once in the bloodstream, these biological invaders would unleash themselves on the liver and commandeer host

Momentum

Starke lends expertise to national advisory committee to end tuberculosis

July 6, 2015 Audrey M. Marks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Community, Dr. Jeffrey Starke, health policy, Healthcare, Houston, infectious disease, pediatrics, tuberculosis

For the last three decades Dr. Jeffrey Starke, professor of pediatrics-infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, has spent his career treating children infected with

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Experts tackle 3 key policy areas for using cutting-edge sequencing in patient care

September 30, 2014 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Amy McGuire, Dr. Maggie Curnutte, ethics, Genetics, health policy, Healthcare, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, next-generation sequencing, policy, Public Policy, Technology

As techniques such as next generation sequencing, which determines the precise order of the nucleotides that make up DNA, are used in patient diagnosis and

Progress Notes

Keys to maintaining a healthy diet in medicine

July 14, 2014 health policy, Student Experiences

By Paras Mehta, MS4 Throughout medical school, I have seen physicians discuss with their patients the importance of a healthy diet. Doctors tell patients that

Momentum

Dr. Hardeep Singh goes to Washington

May 7, 2014 Awards and Honors, Dr. Hardeep Singh, health policy, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

It was an experience he described as humbling and inspiration. Dr. Hardeep Singh, recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, traveled to Washington, D.C.