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Andrew Bindman, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

• JAMA Forum: Will the Evaluation of the ACA Be Health Services Research’s Finest Hour?

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on March 28, 2013

  

  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides an unprecedented opportunity to expand insurance coverage and to reform the health care delivery system in the United States. The political debate about its merits and shortcomings has been highly partisan and unrelenting and… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Warning: Dangerous Physician Payment Cliffs Ahead

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on January 10, 2013

  

  By Andrew Bindman, MD It was touch and go, but the new year has provided physicians with some positive news about reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid. As a part of the legislation intended to prevent the United States from going… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Voting With the Weight of 32 Million

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on November 1, 2012

  

  Next Tuesday, each of us has a chance to make our vote count 32 million times. What I mean by that is a vote for reelecting President Obama will ensure that 32 million uninsured people gain coverage as promised under… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Expanding Health Care Coverage as a Step Toward Cost Control

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on September 26, 2012

  

  President Obama’s federal health reform through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is designed to significantly expand health insurance coverage. When it was initially passed in March 2010, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that 32 million uninsured Americans individuals would… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Coming Attractions? Romneycare—the Remake

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on August 16, 2012

  

  As many people know, when Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, he promoted and signed a state health reform law that expanded health insurance coverage through government investment. But now, in his campaign for the presidency of the United States,… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum — Health Reform: The Music Didn’t Stop a Second Time

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on July 2, 2012

  

  I remember where I was when the music of health reform stopped the first time. I was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working on the staff of the Energy and Commerce Committee that was chaired by Henry Waxman… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum — Primary Care: Rebuilding a Foundation for Reforming Health Care Delivery

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on June 1, 2012

  

  Observers of the US health care system have noted the withering primary care physician workforce and the declining interest among US medical students for careers in primary care. Primary care physicians constitute less than a third of the US physician… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Battle Lines Surrounding Health Care Take Shape in Presidential Race

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on April 6, 2012

  

  While all eyes were on the US Supreme Court last week during its historic 3-day debate on the Affordable Care Act, a new front in the ongoing partisan battle over health care was taking shape this week following the passage… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Listening to History in the Making

  By Andrew Bindman, MD on March 27, 2012

  

  “The revolution will not be televised,” poet-musician Gil Scott Heron famously said, and apparently neither will the US Supreme Court case reviewing whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is constitutional. About a week before the historic proceedings got under way… Read More ›