by Hillary Regan | Apr 17, 2015 | Learn
Investments in Education Are Investments in Health Health care accounts for a vast proportion of the nation’s federal and state budgets. At the same time, the business costs of providing private employee health insurance are steadily climbing. Amid these escalating...
by Hillary Regan | Apr 17, 2015 | Learn
States that expanded the number of people eligible for Medicaid are seeing big budgetary savings without reducing services. Data from eight states show $1.8 billion in budget savings and revenue gains by the end of 2015 as a result of Medicaid expansion. Read more...
by Hillary Regan | Apr 15, 2015 | Learn
States have long been the testing ground for new models of health care and coverage. Section1332 of the Affordable Care Act, which takes effect in less than two years, throws open the door to innovation by authorizing states to rethink the law’s coverage designs....
by Hillary Regan | Apr 15, 2015 | Learn
For many years, researchers speculated that what they couldn’t explain about disparities must be the fingerprint of some mysterious genetic component. But since they are now able to scan the entire genome, this speculation appears both lazy and wrong. When it comes to...
by Hillary Regan | Apr 10, 2015 | Learn
A new Commonwealth Fund study suggests that some of the differences in insurance coverage rates and affordability of care among the nation’s four largest states may be attributable to health insurance policies in these states before and after the Affordable Care Act...
by Hillary Regan | Apr 7, 2015 | Learn
Among 118 accredited schools of medicine and osteopathic medicine, the report found that 82 percent of the schools reviewed did not require students to take any exercise-related courses, and that fewer than half of the physicians trained in the United States enrolled...
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