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Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly [PDF]
Projected costs for Medicare Part D have been revised downward, causing some analysts to claim that the program has proven itself a success. This report explores the factors behind the lower cost projections and reaches far different conclusions.
Dean Baker
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Medigap Reforms: Potential Effects of Benefit Restrictions on Medicare Spending and Beneficiary Costs [PDF]
, 2011 Analyzes how three options for reforming Medicare supplemental insurance policies that help cover cost-sharing requirements would affect Medicare spending and beneficiary spending by income level, health status, and inpatient hospital ...
Mark Merlis
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Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Disparities in thyroid cancer care are driven by demographic and socioeconomic factors such as insurance status, income, and access to specialized care. Methods Retrospective chart review. Demographic and clinical data from 281 adult patients who underwent thyroidectomy or hemithyroidectomy for papillary or follicular thyroid cancer
Breanna Dominguez +5 more
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Helping the Medicare Population [PDF]
Master of Public HealthPublic Health Interdepartmental ProgramSandra B. ProcterThis report will briefly detail a field experience completed at Riley County Extension office under the supervision of the director Jennifer Wilson and preceptor Virginia ...
Breese, Katie
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Costs and Benefits of Eliminating the Medicare Waiting Period for SSDI Beneficiaries [PDF]
, 2009 Examines how the two-year waiting period for Medicare eligibility affects disabled workers and how eliminating it would affect costs, private coverage crowd-out, and demand for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
David Stapleton +2 more
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Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Depression and anxiety are common in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC), but their impacts on postoperative outcomes after major HNC surgery are not well defined. We evaluated whether preexisting, clinically diagnosed depression or anxiety independently predicted short‐term postoperative outcomes among adults undergoing HNC ...
Xiaodan Hu +9 more
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Medicaid Expenditures and State Budgets: Past, Present, and Future [PDF]
Rapid spending growth has made Medicaid a major element in state budgets; financial support from Federal matching grants is now a main component of state government revenues and of intergovernmental fiscal relations.
David Wildasin, James Marton
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Designing a Mixed Public and Private System for the Health Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2008 Reviews features of a reform proposal offering both public and private plans in a government-run purchasing pool, modeled on Medicare, in the commercial insurance market.
Bryan Dowd
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Examining Sources of Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Supplemental Insurance, Medicare Advantage, and Prescription Drug Coverage [PDF]
, 2008 Provides 2006 data on Medicare enrollees' supplemental and drug coverage. Compares traits of Medicare Advantage enrollees to those of fee-for-service Medicare enrollees, and examines drug coverage and subsidy status among low-income ...
Anthony Damico +4 more
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Early diagnosis is critical for improving pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma prognosis, but few biomarkers currently exist. In a case–control study of 1,307 pancreatic cancer cases and matched pairs nested in prospective cohort studies, 13 miRNA–cancer associations were found to change during the blood‐draw‐to‐diagnosis time window.
Hui Cai +10 more
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