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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

This month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar explored the politics of "Romneycare," a state-level health reform which in many ways made possible the future Affordable Care Act. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance. Owning a car is a choice.

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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar. We debated the types of policies that would be most likely to encourage innovations that make a positive difference for individuals and populations. Should state and local governments provide direct grants or tax relief to promising startups?

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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

At first glance, federal nutrition policy seemed to be an unusual topic for our Georgetown Health Policy Seminar for family physicians. As described in a recent JAMA Internal Medicine editorial , future doctors receive little formal instruction about healthy dietary habits. and MyPlate.

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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

To the ACA's detractors, Medicaid expansion is a hostile government takeover that must be opposed in principle, regardless of potential benefits of an infusion of federal dollars. Long-term care services (nursing homes, mental health, home health care) accounted for 3 in every 10 dollars that the program spent.

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