Bad News for Obamacare: More Insurance Sends More Patients to Pricey ERs

Published January 2, 2014

Bad News for Obamacare: More Insurance Sends More Patients to Pricey ERs
Because the selection was random, it allowed the researchers to isolate the effect of getting health insurance (in the form of Medicaid) the same way a randomized drug trial is meant to isolate a drug's effects. Such “natural experiments” are all the …
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Researchers and drug companies are ganging up for a new push against cancer
Three trends are helping to fill this cancer-drug cornucopia. One is the increase in demand as people live longer, … And sometimes, to add to the problem, one of the enabling mutations of a cancer is of a gene involved in the DNA-repair mechanism …
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Patch Outperforms Holter for Prolonged Heart Rhythm Tracking
The findings, which were published and made publicly available online by the American Journal of Medicine today, suggest that the ZIO Service — which includes the ZIO Patch, data analysis and a diagnostic report provided by device maker iRhythm …
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