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US Health Care Reform May Make us Like Canada: Good or Bad?

by francine 06.22.2011

My family doctor emigrated to the US from Canada years ago. He has just installed an EMR and qualified easily for meaningful use stimulus funds because he takes Medicaid patients. To qualify for meaningful use under Medicaid, all you have to do is order the EMR; it doesn’t even have to be up and running. [...]

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Pandemic Flu Prevention: For want of a horseshoe nail the economy was lost?

by Karoli 04.27.2009

Today’s news that $850 million in funds earmarked for pandemic flu prevention and preparation was stripped from the stimulus package at the request of Republicans who claimed such funds were not stimulative comes as no surprise, but it may be a lesson far costlier than $850 million. Besides the looming and possibly dire public health [...]

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Why the Stimulus Package Will Work

by Karoli 02.19.2009

I was going to write a nice dry post about all the changes that the economic stimulus package (ARRA) made to COBRA, but then I noticed that it has been done by many who have spent a considerable amount of time researching it. Instead, I’m going to update my COBRA story. I. Draconian Decisions Like [...]

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