Sound Medicine – Defining Essential Health Benefits

I know I’ve been bad about posting all of these, but I’ll try harder.  I was on Sound Medicine again this weekend:

It’s been just over a year since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the massive overhaul of the health care system that’s underway — even though it won’t be fully implemented for another three years.

Behind the scenes, actuaries at insurance companies are working out the nitty-gritty of what will be — and what won’t be — covered by basic health policies.

Sound Medicine’s health policy analyst, Aaron Carroll, MD, tells Barbara Lewis that “the devil really IS in the details.”

Listen in!

Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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