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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.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

And then there was a version in 2003 which Mark participated in and he since passed. So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. Mike: Thank you.

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

GeriPal

Eric 01:44 And we’re going to be talking about the roots of palliative care, and I think importantly, not just looking back, but what does that mean for our future as hospice and palliative care providers. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. But before we do, I think, Justin, you have a song request for Alex.

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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 from what we read was much better as century back, is in communities manage their own affairs.

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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 Blog

The three letters together provide the range of actions DEA may take: no rescheduling from schedule I (former drug officials), rescheduling to schedule III (Democratic state attorneys general), or descheduling altogether (Democratic senators). Letter 1 is signed by former DEA administrators and Directors of National Drug Policy.

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