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Moving the Medicare Age up is Bad Medicine
A common goal for health reform is to decrease total health care expenditures. Adjusting the eligibility age for Medicare beneficiaries has the attraction of decreasing federal spending and shifting costs to private marketplaces. However, these reforms would detract from the Continue Reading …
Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich
Soaring health care costs have been a popular topic of discussion in the public arena, even in the midst of a recent spending slowdown between 2004 and 2013. The authors of this study investigated how health care expenditures differed between Continue Reading …
The Missing Link Between Mental Health and Guns
The crime rate in the United States has decreased despite public perception. However, the death rate from firearms – especially for suicides – has not seen as great a reduction. Researchers at Duke and the University of South Florida studied Continue Reading …
Medical Homes Improve Outcomes for Underserved
Healthcare finance and delivery policies are shifting from volume to value, placing the burden on physicians, hospitals, and administrators to identify and implement models that improve quality while also reducing cost. New evidence supports expanding the (PCMH) to achieve better Continue Reading …
AP44 Proposed Rule: Our Comments
On May 25, 2016, the Department of Veteran Affairs announced their AP44-Proposed Rule to amend its medical regulations that will permit full practice authority to all advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) acting within their scope of practice during their VA Continue Reading …