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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

fewer cancer screenings, more conservative prescribing of statins) or declining to cover some beneficial but very expensive therapies. A 2019 RAND study estimated that total national health expenditures under a Medicare for All plan would increase by only 1.8%, from $3.82 trillion annually. trillion annually.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it. You can use it on one thing to either have government, individual providers, healthcare systems do one thing differently. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records.

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Episode 285: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Hayat discusses the five major waves of migration in the last fifty years, resulting from the Soviet-Afghan War, the Afghan Civil War, the Fall of the Taliban, August 2021 US and western forces departure, and how he grew up during the 1990s right after the collapse of the government. 2019 Sep;123(9):888-900. Epub 2019 Jul 30.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several years ago, during the first Trump administration, I excoriated the then-nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services , orthopedic surgeon Tom Price, for his poor understanding of cancer screening. s views on cancer screening. State and local governments decide what vaccines to require. See Samoa, 2019.)