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Primary Care and the National Health Service Corps: Finding Physicians “Who Will Go Where No One Else Will Go”
Roughly 65 million Americans live in places where there are at least 2,000 potential patients for each lonely physician. No surprise, these tend to be impoverished rural regions, or depressed inner cities. We call them “underserved areas.” If we paid...
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Thu, Mar 03 2011 7:17 AM
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Reality Check: Haley Barbour, BMWs and Medicaid Recipients
It seems old lies never die—especially when it comes to entitlement programs for the poor. In the contentious debate over how to reduce spending in state Medicaid programs, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) insisted that one solution for his state.....
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Wed, Mar 02 2011 2:06 PM
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Medicaid Reform: States Clamor For “Relief and Flexibility”
States want flexibility in implementing the health care law, and President Obama told the National Governor’s Association yesterday that he supported a bipartisan bill that would allow states to apply for innovation waivers in 2014 instead of in 2017...
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Tue, Mar 01 2011 1:56 PM
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The True Victims Of Fetal Pain Laws
Danielle and Robb Deaver are living proof of the awful reality of Nebraska’s ill-conceived “fetal pain” law. The law, which took effect last October and is the only one of its kind in America, prohibits abortions in the state after... Read More...
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Mon, Mar 07 2011 12:15 PM
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The FDA “Has a Chat” With Plastic Surgeons
It’s always good to hear about the FDA being proactive. Below, a post by Jim Edwards, writing on BNET’s “Placebo Effect, ” tells how the FDA reacted when surgeons began advising doctors that they shouldn’t use the word “cancer” when... Read More...
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Sat, Mar 05 2011 1:26 PM
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