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Listing ID: 952
Title: Health Affairs
Description: Posts about health policy issues of concern to a diverse audience of interested readers.
Category: Health
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listed on: June 10, 2008 06:24:09 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Changing The Name—But Not The Political Game - Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:59:21 +0000 |
| Editor’s Note: Yesterday, the Obama administration announced interim final regulations governing the temporary Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Below, Thomas Miller and James Capretta criticize this portion of the Act and the design of the temporary health insurance pools for high-risk individuals that it creates. For more on [...] |
| Viable—And Reliable—Alternatives To Colonoscopies - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:57:09 +0000 |
| According to the American College of Gastroenterology, colorectal cancer is currently the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The colonoscopy is considered the “gold standard” for colon cancer detection. However, a new Health Affairs Web First study by researchers from RTI International demonstrates that for screening programs with limited budgets, using fecal [...] |
| End-Of-Life Savings: The‘Fool’s Gold’Of Reform? - Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:12:46 +0000 |
| Just over 1 in 4 dollars spent by the Medicare program last year was spent on someone who was in their last year of their life. This is nothing new–the basic proportion has not changed since it was first noted in the 1970s. Other nations that spend much less on health care nevertheless spend a similar [...] |