The Health Care Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
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.
The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2022
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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The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2021
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).
The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2021
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.
The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 31, 2022
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.
The Health Care Blog
JUNE 28, 2022
It similarly did so in 1971’s Eisenstadt (contraception for unmarried couples) and in 2003’s Lawrence (gay sex), as well as, of course, in Roe (1973). It did so in 1965’s Griswold, which for the first time gave married couples the legal right to use birth control. The current Court, though, found the Roe decision had been wrongly decided.
NC Health News
MARCH 13, 2025
By Grace Vitaglione Sherrie Wood and her husband, Kenneth, were newly married when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2003. He experienced extreme back pain and problems with urinating for over a year, but his general practitioner only treated the symptoms. After all, he was only in his early 40s.
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