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

The Health Care Blog

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. Introduction.

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Engineers: Heal Thyselves (and Health Care)

The Health Care Blog

I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age. So what, you might ask, does this have to do with healthcare? It turns out that there is something called a healthcare engineer. It sought to resolve that.