Canada and the Recession: Angles of Deflection
By Nancy Folbre, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The New York Times
Economix
February 19, 2009
As the
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Canada and the Recession: Angles of Deflection
By Nancy Folbre, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The New York Times
Economix
February 19, 2009
As the
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Those supporting the leading Democratic model for reform frequently cite the Massachusetts plan as an example of how building on our current system of health
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Massachusetts' Plan: A Failed Model for Health Care Reform
Prepared by Dr. Rachel Nardin, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, with Drs. David Himmelstein and
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Massachusetts' Plan: A Failed Model for Health Care Reform
Prepared by Dr. Rachel Nardin, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, with Drs. David Himmelstein and
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"Divided We Fail" presented itself as a broad coalition of diverse interests that could come together and agree on health care reform. But it isn't
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The Influence Game: Labor and business, joined in health care cause, now at odds on specifics
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Chicago Tribune
February 16, 2009
Labor unions and business
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The Influence Game: Labor and business, joined in health care cause, now at odds on specifics
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Chicago Tribune
February 16, 2009
Labor unions and business
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Richard Gottfried points out an extremely important distinction between the nature of coverage decisions in public health care financing systems, and in private insurance financing
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The last Quote of the Day message discussed Medicare's national coverage determinations process (NCD), using as an example the decision to decline coverage for computed
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This CMS decision to not pay for computed tomography colonography (CTC or "virtual colonoscopy") when used as a screening test for colorectal cancer has
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NCA (national coverage analyses) Tracking Sheet for Screening Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC) for Colorectal Cancer
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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This CMS decision to not
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The problem is that Atul Gawande is flat out wrong. He implies that other nations merely made adjustments in their existing systems to expand coverage