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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

Personal responsibility was important, some aides argued, but what about the libertarian view that the government had no business requiring people to buy something? in 2006 to 1.9% Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. These are families who are in distress. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review. Annals of IM. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. This is Eric Widera.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. In a 2005 article for Rolling Stone that was later retracted, Kennedy claimed government officials had buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism, The Wall Street Journal said. There has been a lot of monkey business with the VSD,” Kennedy previously told lawmakers.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency. Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines.