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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Bush espoused the benefits of providing senior citizens with more private health insurance plan options and driving down Medicare spending, but the opposite has occurred. Nirban Singh is an MPH student at Northeastern University with a passion for investigating the role of health policy in creating equitable outcomes.

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HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism

Your Local Epidemiologist

But pretending that most public health policies were largely failures isn’t helpful either. Love, YLE and KP Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is a resident physician and Yale Emergency Scholar, completing a combined Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication.