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Category: Health reform
How Massachusetts Can Inform the Nation
Massachusetts serves as an experimental guide for a nation seeking to implement dramatic health care reforms. In November 2009, the Urban Institute conducted a site visit and a series of interviews of key stake holders to analyze the health system Continue Reading …
The Truce Between Choice and Life
Conservatives argue that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violates the truce between pro-choice and pro-life. We recommend a strategy to negotiate a new, longer lasting truce. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, PL 111-148) specifies that Continue Reading …
The Appropriateness of Age Rating
National Health Expenditure Data (NHED) obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) allows for the comparison of personal health spending based multiple factors. Considering the debate surrounding the appropriateness of age rating variation, this analysis seeks a Continue Reading …
Breastmilk does a brain good!
Breastfeeding has long been debated as the more beneficial method of infant feeding when compared to bottle-feeding. Many studies strongly associate breastfeeding with improved infant health; however, the long-term effects on mental health had not previously been measured. In a Continue Reading …
The Swiss Health Care System
As healthcare reform was debated over the past two years, cross national comparisons between the United States and other developed nations (such as the Netherlands, Japan, and France) provided insight into how universal healthcare could be achieve through a multipayer Continue Reading …
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