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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 …
What if every Doc was paid Medicare rates?
Currently, physicians earn reimbursement from multiple different payers such as Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurers. If doctors were paid only according to Medicare rates, most would be losers – specialists more than others.
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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