Why Physicians Support the ACA
It’s a time of high anxiety as the Affordable Care Act gets ready to put its signature expansion in place. Starting October 1st, health insurance exchanges will go live in all …
About the Blogger
- Nilesh Kalyanaraman is is the Vice President for Medical Affairs at Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore, MD. His interest is in delivering quality health care to underserved populations. He graduated from SUNY Brooklyn School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. He was a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the NIH from 2010-2011. He lives with his wife and daughter in Baltimore and can't wait to take his little girl rock climbing when she's a little older.
Editor's Note: Any views or opinions presented on this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the hospitals, clinics, and institutions where they work, teach, and study.
Recent Posts
Undocumented Immigrants
At Health Care for the Homeless, where I work, we’re gearing up for Medicaid expansion coming in 2014 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The ACA expands health insurance covera…
Community Health Centers: Transforming Medicine In Your Neighborhood
Change is hard. Moving our health care system forward to both improve quality and reduce costs is the primary focus of the Affordable Care Act. Much of the press surrounding this is …
Medical Respite Care: Saving Lives and Money
If you’ve ever been hospitalized, you know that the best part of the experience is getting to go home. But what happens if you’re homeless? For many, they return to the s…
Money Can be Exchanged for Goods and Services
There’s a brilliant scene in The Simpsons that lodged itself in my head the first time I saw it almost twenty years ago. Homer is reaching under the couch for a fallen peanut a…
Homeless
Last week I went on my first outreach visit to the homeless. In preparation we stocked up on water, gloves, gauze, and medications, put on our sneakers and headed out to the streets.…
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
I’m used to seeing people in my clinic who can’t afford medications. Last week I saw a woman who was supposed to be on ten different medications but was only taking five …
Equal Pay for Equal Work
I love it when I see Medicaid patients on my schedule for the day. Working at a community health center, our doors are open to all people, regardless of their ability to pay. It̵…
Coercion
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week brought by 26 states against Obamacare (it IS catchy). One of the many good things in the health care reform law is the expansion of Medic…
Broccoli
As we were eating dinner Wednesday night my wife turned to me and confessed that she was apprehensive about the fate of health care reform. I asked her why and she said that for the …
