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Category: Special Topics
Keeping it in the Community
Colorado has 140 community health centers (CHCs) that provide care for 9 percent of the state’s population and 36 percent of Colorado’s Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus clients. Community health centers are a potential solution to health care costs Continue Reading …
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
A randomized clinical trial in Oregon provided health insurance to some low-income residents and not others. Results from the trial demonstrate better access to care, improved health, and reduced financial stressors. The state of in 2008 to select a fraction Continue Reading …
Living up to Lady Liberty’s Creed
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” — The Statue of Liberty Two major political Continue Reading …
Lighting It Up
This Fourth of July, light up a firecracker and not a cigarette. Cigarettes kill. But removing these dangerous products – or at least a common flavor that makes them more acceptable – seems far from likely. Tobacco products are responsible Continue Reading …
Trading Places
Americans are often pre-occupied worrying about people entering the United States across the Mexican border. Ever wonder if Mexicans worry about the nearly 2/3 of the border population that enters Mexico for health care? The 32 counties in Texas that Continue Reading …
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