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After identifying the economic benefits that increased medical tourism from Canada to the United States may confer on the U.S. healthcare market and local economies, this essay analyzes applicable U.S. legal impediments that certain medical tourism arrangements — to wit, those involving a...
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Millions Saved (2016) is a new edition of detailed case studies on the attributable impact of global health programs at … can be used in decision making and to provide further evidence on the extent of health gains produced for the funding … public health successes, finding that large health gains have been achieved in programs that represent good value for money …
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Beginning in the 1960s, state legislatures across the country enacted consumer protection acts that “were originally designed to supplement the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) mission of protecting consumers from ‘unfair or deceptive acts or practices’ and are referred to as...
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The NCAA’s NIL policy left a great deal of grey area for schools and conferences to fill in. In this space, collectives have emerged to fill the financial role that booster groups were prohibited from fulfilling, and while NCAA policy still prohibits pay-for-play schemes, collectives have...
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Recent improvements in population health have been possible thanks to advances in sanitation and health technology …, HIV antiretrovirals, organ transplants and implants, laser surgery and angioplasty to human genome project, the health …. The health innovation process has however become an important driver of health expenditure growth across all countries …
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There is a widespread impression among Canadians that their health-care system is universal, comprehensive and …. The Canada Health Act (CHA) uses the term "medically necessary" to define medical procedures and treatments to be paid for … by the publicly-funded medicare system. In Canada’s health-care system, the term has come to refer almost exclusively to …
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This paper examines current public opinion surrounding the future of employment-based health coverage and how it varies … by demographics, health status, and selected questions on satisfaction with health care and ratings of the health care … system in the United States. The public is in large part confident that employers and unions will continue to offer health …
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This paper examines public opinion surrounding the future of employment-based health coverage. Data come from the EBRI …/MGA 2011 Health Confidence Survey (HCS), a survey that examines a broad spectrum of health care issues, including Americans …’ satisfaction with health care today, their confidence in the future of the health care system and the Medicare program, and their …
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which we replace general access with specific access via home connection, after discovering the relatively weak correlation …
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This paper presents findings from the 2011 Health Confidence Survey (HCS), the 14th wave of an annual survey that … examines a broad spectrum of health care issues, including Americans’ satisfaction with health care today, their confidence in … the future of the health care system and the Medicare program, and their attitudes toward health care reform. Findings …
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