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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. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

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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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law Blog

Teva case, that the statutory provisions governing patent infringement, specifically induced infringement, do not address carve-outs. Teva received tentative approval in June 2003 and launched in 2007 after a blocking patent expired. The catch is, as we have learned from the GSK v. Teva decision changed everything.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? To what extent is the rise of tech in San Francisco to blame for our local rise in homelessness? What can we do about it? What are the highest yield interventions and policy changes? What are the highest yield interventions and policy changes?

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

Not surprisingly, then-presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator from 2001 to 2003, did not sign the letter. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. July 6, 2022).

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