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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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.…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …