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Medicaid expansion will leave out many of the poorest: What is wrong with this picture?

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Medicaid expansion will leave out many of the poorest: What is wrong with this picture?

In States’ Policies on Health Care Exclude Some of the Poorest , in the New York Times on May 25, 2013, Robert Pear describes how this bizar...

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Keeping immigrants and all of us healthy is a social task

The Health Toll of Immigration , by Sabrina Tavernise in the May 19 New York Times, documents the decreased life expectancy and worse overal...

Hospital charge variation and Medicare equipment fraud: two forms of gaming the "non-system"

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Hospital charge variation and Medicare equipment fraud: two forms of gaming the "non-system"

There has been extensive coverage of the recently published report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that revealed dr...

Medicaid Expansion: Do we care for people or not?

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Medicaid Expansion: Do we care for people or not?

A cornerstone of the health coverage reforms in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the expansion of Medicaid to a large population curre...

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