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Sound Medicine on the Doc Fix

Aaron — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:51:22 +0000

Somehow I forgot to post this when it went up:

One of the stories we’re watching in Washington this week has to do with something called “the doc fix.”

It has to do with how doctors are paid when they care for Medicare patients. It’s a problem that’s been around for years — without a permanent solution.

Healthcare-policy wonk Dr. Aaron Carroll provides his take on the latest developments in government health care reform.

This stuff is still relevant, regardless of the short attention span of the media.

Sound Medicine – Healthier School Lunches?

Aaron — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:39:39 +0000

From Sound Medicine:

The Senate is planning a vote on a revamp of the Child Nutrition Act that was first passed back in 1966.

It’s a case of competing interests: nutritionists, the farm lobby, and even First Lady Michelle Obama.

We’re joined by Sound Medicine‘s health policy expert, Dr. Aaron Carroll to walk us through this debate.

Dr. Aaron Carroll is a regular analyst here on Sound Medicine. He directs the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research and is Associate Director for Children’s Health Services Research at the IU School of Medicine.

Go listen.

Sound Medicine

Aaron — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:16:26 +0000

I was on Sound Medicine again this weekend:

Well, it looks like the health care reform process that’s been alive, and then comatose, is now flickering back to life.As we record this mid-week, President Obama is laying out what he hopes will be the end-game to get the House to approve the bill that has already passed the Senate …with the understanding that then, the Senate will go back and amend its version so that both sides can pass it.

And as one step, the President has said that he SUPPORTS four adjustments to the measure that Republicans have proposed.

Here to walk us through what those changes would be is our regular analyst on this topic, Dr. Aaron Carroll.

Dr. Aaron Carroll directs the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at the IU School of Medicine. He’s a regular contributor to this program.

Listen to the interview.

An opinion piece instead of policy

Aaron — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:57 +0000

Most of the time you hear me on the radio, it’s stricyly policy.

Regional NPR asked me to do something more opinion based. So you get this.

From Sound Medicine.

Sound Medicine – Health Care Reform Update

Aaron — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:16:08 +0000

Another holiday weekend for me, so it’s light blogging. To tide you over, go listen to me on Sound Medicine:

C-Span fans have had a field day this week: watching live broadcasts of the Senate Finance Committee “mark-up” of the health care reform legislation introduced last week by Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus.

The consensus seems to be that a final bill will contain new regulations for insurance companies…some form of requirement that just about everyone buy health insurance…and subsidies for people who can’t afford their premiums.

But the devil, well, you know how that saying ends!

Sound Medicine‘s health care policy analyst Dr. Aaron Carroll joined me in the studio a little earlier this week for an update on where things seem to be headed.

Aaron Carroll is associate professor of pediatrics and director for the Center of Health Policy and Professionalism Research.

Go listen!