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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. Owning a car is a choice. Phillips, Jr.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj’s reflections on the state of palliative care in the US. Transcript.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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I have felt as I’ve come through this field over the last, I guess 2003 is when I realized I wanted to be a palliative care doctor. If you read just one, read Palliative Medicine – Just Another Specialty ? by Kearney. I promise its short. But before we do, I think, Justin, you have a song request for Alex. Justin 01:59 Absolutely.

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