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We've been chronicling the drugs of the creative underclass—from the "I love my orange pills" Adderall to benzos to psychotropics. How the hell is everybody getting through their workday? It...
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A second series of focus groups with parents of children enrolled in the Los Angeles Healthy Kids program found that opinions of the program remain favorable despite its recent fiscal challenges. Healthy Kids had provided comprehensive, affordable coverage to nearly 45,000 poor children from...
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Earlier, we called for Brit teen socialite-cokehead and It Child Peaches Geldof's firing, deeming her a menace to society. And then there's her friend, Internet phenomenon Cory Kennedy, famous for,...
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The Los Angeles Healthy Kids program, during its first four years, extended comprehensive, affordable coverage to over 40,000 poor and vulnerable children, and improved their access to and use of care. Yet, the program also faced serious challenges, primarily related to financing. Funding for...
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Small employers cannot buy health insurance unless 75 percent of workers offered coverage enroll. Under Senator McCain's proposal to replace the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with tax credits usable for ESI or non-group plans, many young and healthy workers would save money...
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Recent congressional proposals and reforms advocated by the presidential candidates have renewed the debate about whether the problem of the uninsured is best addressed through subsidies to employers or to individuals. In this brief, the authors argue that it is more efficient to provide...
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Although health insurance coverage rose dramatically in the past year in Massachusetts, some questioned whether health reforms simply moved people from being uninsured to underinsured. This study explores whether requiring individuals to have health insurance has forced some people, particularly...
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We know that health insurance coverage rose dramatically in the past year in Massachusetts. This study examines what the effect has been on specific populations, finding that the greatest gains in insurance coverage were reported by lower-income adults, younger adults and those in minority...
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Senator Barack Obama, along with others, has proposed developing a public plan that would compete with private insurers within an organized health insurance marketplace. The argument is that a public plan would have lower administrative costs and more ability to control provider payment rates...
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The McCain health care plan represents a philosophical advance over many proposals, principally in its commitment to redistributing the current tax exemption for employer-based health insurance. However, the plan raises more concerns than it addresses.McCains proposal would dramatically change...
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