Kaiser Health News: Baby Boomers Set Another Trend - More Golden Years in Poorer Health After the last of the baby boomers become fully eligible for Medicare, the federal health program can expect significantly higher costs in 2030 both because of the high number of beneficiaries and because many are expected to be significantly less [...]
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What We’re Reading: Aug. 10, 2015
NPR Will Doctors Soon Be Prescribing Video Games For Mental Health? At the University of California–San Francisco, neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley is putting a fully immersive video game focused on multitasking through the paces of the FDA approval process for medical devices. If successful, Gazzaley sees great potential to use these games for a range of [...]
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What We’re Reading: Sep. 22, 2014
Deal reach on tax-free disability savings accounts (Disability Scoop, Sep. 19) Federal lawmakers say they’ve reached a deal to move forward on legislation that would establish a new way for people with disabilities to save money without jeopardizing their government benefits. For autistic adults, coverage options are scarce (Kaiser Health News, Sep. 19) It’s getting easier [...]
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Medicaid Expansion and the Tale of Don Quixote
Next month, all eyes will be on the U.S. Supreme Court when it takes up the issue of whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare, allows people in states without their own insurance market exchanges to receive federal tax credits that help them afford the health insurance they purchase through the [...]
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