On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was amended on March 30, 2010 with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and together are known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The…
In Washington State, the big news for the last year has been the Washington State Health Care Authority’s attempt to legislate a mandate to reduce non-emergency use of hospital EDs, in addition to the over-use of EMS. Their plan included…
While there is a lot on New York’s 2012 Legislative Agenda, there are few policies that affect us as EM physicians as much as the I-STOP Act. I-STOP stands for the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing. It serves as a…
Welcome to our very first politics in medicine blog! As physicians, our job is to know the medicine and take care of patients. That’s what we signed up to do when we decided to go to medical school. However,…