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Sep 17 2010

Accessing Acute Care and Avoiding the ER

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Health Affairs publishes several studies addressing inappropriate use of the emergency room, finding that many visits could be dealt with in other settings, but that higher copays may not deter…

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Sep 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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According to a new report by the Dartmouth Atlas Project concludes there is no simple relationship between the supply of physicians and access to primary care

Sep 10 2010

Middletown Journal

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Dr. James Brockman has taken on a new business model – No insurance is accepted at his Affordable Health Care Center, which offers visits starting at $45 and capped at $100 for more complicated cases

Sep 07 2010

New York Times

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Can access to primary care be maintained, much less improved, when an already inadequate and inefficient system takes on an expected 32 million newly insured customers?

Aug 19 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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If the U.S. is ever to improve rural America’s access to quality healthcare, the one thing it must provide—just about everyone agrees—is broadband Internet access

Aug 18 2010

Wall Street Journal

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More than 85% of the uninsured in Massachusetts were between the ages of 19-64; more likely to be male, young and single; a member of a racial or ethnic minority; or a non-citizen and lack proficiency in English

Aug 16 2010

New York Times

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Those who are afflicted with chronic conditions are less likely to have Internet access, according to data from Pew.

Aug 16 2010

New York Times

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The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that the number of men and women in state and federal prisons age 55 and older grew 76 percent between 1999 and 20088

Aug 16 2010

USA Today

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How much more difficult will finding a primary care doctor become as a result of the recently passed health care reform legislation?

Aug 12 2010

Reuters

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There are about 2,000 mobile clinics in the United States. Advocates say the approach can help control the rising cost of health care by helping people with chronic diseases to stay out of the emergency room

Aug 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The National Health Services Corps has gotten an infusion of more than $1 billion to incentivize young primary-care physicians to practice in underserved areas – keeping the recruits once their service contracts are up will be the hard part

Aug 09 2010

Washington Post

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A report by the corps’ advisory council estimated that 27,000 primary care physicians are needed to meet the needs of about 45 million Americans in medically underserved areas.

Aug 04 2010

Fiscal Times

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Free Health Clinics: A Stand-In for Costly Medical Care

Jul 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of physicians in California has been increasing faster than the state’s population, but not as fast as the state needs, especially as both state and federal legislation strive to increase the number of people who receive healthcare services.

Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Patients last year averaged a record of four hours and seven minutes spent in the nation’s emergency departments—a four minute increase over 2008 wait times, and a 31-minute increase since reports were made available in 2002

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