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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.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. No, they are.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law

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.

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