Health Care
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Understanding Medicaid’s Effects on New Enrollees: A Qualitative Approach
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The authors utilize an alternative methodological approach—one that emphasizes qualitative research—in order to better understand how newly insured individuals interact with the healthcare system.
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Putting a Price on Child Maltreatment
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Researchers attempt to quantify the impact of child maltreatment on Medicaid.
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Suicide Prevention: A Policy Solution?
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An examination of state insurance laws shows that mental health insurance coverage has a significant impact on suicide rates.
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Will Pay-for-Performance Pay for Itself?
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New study evaluates the effect of state implementation of Pay-For-Performance on nursing home care.
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Health IT—Helpful or Not?
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A disappointing performance for health information technology and Electronic Medical Records in a study of Medicare Patient outcomes
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No Smoking: Hospital non-smoking policies’ effect on smokers
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How well do hospitals fare in maintaining smoke-free grounds, and who gets caught in the fray with such policies?
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Tracking Trends in Emergency Department Admissions
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Authors offer three reasons for the growth in hospital admissions through emergency departments.
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Where Will We Be Without the Individual Mandate?
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With the Supreme Court considering the constitutionality of the individual mandate, how worried should policymakers be if the mandate must be abandoned?
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Policy Radio | Health Care for the Next Generation
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In this podcast, Dr. Genevieve Kenney of the Urban Institute discusses the impact of new health care laws on American children.