Lecture explores Medicare for All’s potential impacts
November 21, 2019
(Shared from an article originally published by the VUMC Reporter.)
By Jill Clendening
The concept of a single-payer, government-run health care program — Medicare for All — has sparked national debate, and that proposal was the focus of a spirited discussion on Nov. 19 at the Research into Policy and Practice Lecture sponsored by the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
New study aims at opioids and overdoses in Tennessee
November 15, 2019
A new study from Melissa McPheeters, PhD, MPH, research professor of health policy, finds that “prescribing (opioids) is common in Tennessee before an overdose, does not decrease appreciably afterward, and MAT may be underutilized as increases in buprenorphine were not observed after overdose events.”