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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. in 2006 to 1.9%

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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Two decades later, there is a widespread consensus that the U.S.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Since their continuity clinic continues to be located in Maryland, we decided that a great topic to revive this series of seminars was the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP), which was recently featured in a Milbank Memorial Fund Issue Brief. According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019.

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Legislative passage of Medicare

The Health Policy Exchange

The legislative passage of Medicare was the subject of the first of a series of monthly one-hour health policy seminars for Family Medicine fellows and residents at Georgetown University School of Medicine. These seminars will be led by me and the current Robert L. These seminars will be led by me and the current Robert L.

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