As a training physician, the experience of navigating graduate medical education in today’s political landscape has introduced unprecedented adversity Whether transitions in health policy or the continually evolving public perceptions of medicine…
Category: Public Health & Policy
How payment models shape your doctor’s decisions [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, family physician Jonathan Staloff and internal medicine physician Joseph H. Joo join us to discuss the challenges and opportunities in reshaping health ca…
A framework to deliver higher-value care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we dive into the Healthcare Incentives Framework with internal medicine physician and health policy researcher Taylor J. Christensen. Discover how this innovati…
How fee-for-service shapes your doctor’s decisions
An excerpt from Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It. Copyright © 2024, Wolters Kluwer. Clinical case Jessica is a 67-year-old woman having her very first visit with her new primary care clinician, Dr. Jackson. Je…
How fee-for-service shapes your doctor’s decisions
An excerpt from Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It. Copyright © 2024, Wolters Kluwer. Clinical case Jessica is a 67-year-old woman having her very first visit with her new primary care clinician, Dr. Jackson. Je…
How Medicaid expansion could transform health care in Georgia [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join us for an insightful conversation with Brendan Pulsifer, a medical student, as we explore the realities of practicing medicine in Georgia, recently ranked as one of t…
Texas’ Medicaid expansion: a lifesaving solution ignored
Most Texas politicians balk at even discussing Medicaid expansion. They fear the wrath of state leadership and the threat of being primaried by someone further to the right. The expansion of Medicaid to the full extent permitted by the Affordable Care …
America’s democracy is on the brink: Will leaders act before it’s too late?
At age 80, I’m an “old guy.” I’ve been an avid reader and writer on multiple subjects all of my life. Though I write primarily about U.S. health care, I maintain a lively interest in politics generally. Since election day, IR…
The answer is gratitude and it puts you in a good place
Regardless of how one might have voted in the election, the aftermath now includes a dizzying array of proposed cabinet and other health-related appointments and rumors about what they and the new administration might do. How do we in medicine navigate…
What the death of UnitedHealth CEO reveals about our broken health care system
The sudden death of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson has pulled back the curtain on something we’ve all known deep down: America’s health care system is failing. Every day, we hear heartbreaking stories of people denied life-saving treatment…
