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Medicaid expands for adults
As of January 1st, the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid eligibility requirements to include adults living at or below 138% of the federal poverty level (about $15,000 per year for an individual). However, several state and local governments, including California, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Washington D.C., took advantage of Continue Reading …
Healthcare spending still growing, but slowly
The United States spent $2.8 trillion – $8,915 per person or 17.2% of the GDP – on healthcare in 2012. Eighty-five percent went to “personal health spending” meaning drugs, devices, and payments to hospitals, doctors, home health, and nursing homes. Continue Reading …
A Ban on Mammograms?
A recent study published in BMJ looked at 90,000 women over 25 years, randomly dividing the group into some that received screening mammography and others that did not. The findings showed no difference in mortality; however in the mammography group Continue Reading …
Medicaid is not a welfare magnet
A recent study generated by two Harvard scholars and published in Health Affairs concludes that law-maker anxiety regarding the welfare magnet hypothesiswhich projects that states which expand their Medicaid programs will open themselves to an undesirable influx of poor Continue Reading …
National Health Policy Conference (Additional Perspectives)
These additional observations from the NHPC come from Dr. Loren Robinson. What Will It Really Take to Improve the Nation’s Health? The RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America The commissions Mark McCllelan, senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Continue Reading …
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