Health care is a means to an end, and health is that end. There is no inherent value in health care, apart from its impact on health. Because we talk about health care as if it were the same as health, we miss out on opportunities to improve health that fall outside of the health care paradigm. We’re so worried about health care costs that we’ve forgotten to look at health.
EHF’s Lexi Nolen writes about the development and importance of the Texas CCHH Initiative in the national Health Affairs blog.
Learn about EHF’s partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation to highlight Texans with the greatest needs and fewest resources following Harvey.
In Health Affairs, Shao-Chee Sim writes about EHF’s research that’s aimed at informing discussions and decisions being made about Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts.
A new EHF report with the Rural and Community Health Institute (RCHI) at Texas A&M University looks at possible solutions for rural communities in Texas facing a hospital closure.
The American Health Care Act, followed by the release of the White House’s proposed budget, represent a radical departure from a core belief that held this country together for the last century – the belief that we’re all in this together. There’s a lot of talk about who is worthy of compassion, and therefore help, and who is not; the deserving poor versus the undeserving poor. Too many people seem to have confused merit with grace.
The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, IX Bishop of Texas and EHF’s chairman of the board explains how EHF is working to model what it means to be a ‘neighbor’ to a new kind of community, so we become healthier together.
Guest blogger Michael Morrisey interviews health insurers, hospitals and brokers to discover what’s next for health insurance marketplace options in Texas. Morrisey is a professor of health policy and management at the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University.