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

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Medicare Advantage (Advantage), originally conceived in 1997 during the Clinton Administration as ‘Medicare + Choice’, has progressively grown and become an established health insurance option for those 65 and older. million, while trade associations representing the health insurance industry spent an equivalent amount.

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Cancer’s Juvenescence: An Incoming Tide and the Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift

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By GEORGE BEAUREGARD During my years in a bustling metropolitan primary care practice from 1992 to 2010, I recall only a handful of patients under 50 who developed cancer. Since 2010, I’ve transitioned into physician executive roles across various U.S. Many of those individuals are between the ages of 20 and 40.