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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

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Understanding the Policy Context. Bush administration in 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) renamed Medicare + Choice as Medicare Advantage. This act also offered pharmaceutical drug benefits to Medicare beneficiaries for the first time through Medicare Part D via private, approved health insurers.

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The Social Science of Covid

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As Rosenberg admitted, “AIDS was configured very differently—both socially and biologically—in 1983, in 1993, and in 2003.” Scientific progress, as we’ve seen with mRNA-constructed Covid vaccines, makes a difference. But he also suggested that the declaration of an end to the “era of great epidemics” in the 1950s was premature.

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The Eisenhower Principle

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For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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“Playing Doctor” – A Cautionary Tale From Health IT Pioneers.

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On September 17, 2003, the appellate judge ordered the feeding tube removed for a second time. The parents challenged the removal in court and lost. The tube was finally removed on April 24, 2001. The parents charged Michael Schiavo with perjury, and a judge ordered the tube reinserted 2 days later.

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“All Men Would Be Tyrants.” History Reverberates!

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Texas (2003) – Texas Anti-Sodomy Law Unconstitutional. As a result, a series of cases were successfully built on top of this precedent setting ruling. These included: Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) – Contraceptives for Single Adults. Wade (1973) – Abortion Legal in Non-viable Fetus. Lawrence v. Obergefell v.

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Will Trump and RFK Jr. Revive His Covid Pandemic Performance?

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suggests health policy remains a strong interest. As his spokesperson suggested, his up-front leadership led to a resounding victory “because they trust his judgement and support his policies, including his promise to Make America Healthy Again alongside well-respected leaders like RFK Jr.” Kennedy Jr.

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Will Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?

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Slowly policy leaders were awakening to the global nature of the threat. Bush administration in 2003 created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEP FAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). But as Ebola and SARS arrived in the early days of the new millennium, the scientific community in the U.S. The George W.