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Chief population health officer at New York City Health + Hospitals, clinical associate professor at NYU School of Medicine, and primary care physician at Bellevue Hospital

• JAMA Forum: A Bipartisan “Moonshot” in Health: Improving Care for High-Need Patients

  By Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc on July 19, 2017

  

  Drawing comparisons to a “moonshot” in health care is usually reserved for breakthroughs like curing cancer. Perhaps less hyperbolic, though no less impactful, is the idea of transforming care for high-need patients—people with multiple, and often interconnected, medical, social, and… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: Reframing the Health Policy Discourse

  By Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc on May 8, 2017

  

  Among the many confounding aspects of recent health policy debates was how much attention focused on the wrong issues. The conversation devolved into a proxy war over the Affordable Care Act instead of dealing with the deep-rooted flaws in our… Read More ›

• JAMA Forum: The Human Consequences of Repealing the Affordable Care Act

  By Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc on January 18, 2017

  

  Within the maelstrom that is US politics today, some may lose sight of the tangible, human consequences of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Is it 22 million or 32 million who would lose coverage if the ACA were repealed… Read More ›