Mental health affects many public policy areas, such as a passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA), which aims to increase the drug coverage for seniors. Continued expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is by increasing the ...
It is similarly unreasonable to assume that income-based coverage would slow growth in medicine use among middle- and low-income non-seniors, because the policy increased (albeit very slightly) the share of middle- and low-income household drug costs subsidized by government. The second form of...
A major factor for rising healthcare costs is that we are getting older, and as we get older, we are more likely to fall seriously ill. Over the last five years, the number of Singaporean seniors increased by almost 20%...
Data shows that insomnia, breathing problems during sleep and other sleep disorders affect about 36 percent of seniors and 26 percent of adolescents in China, according to Lu, who is also president of Peking University S...
The US Department of Agriculture has approved the GM apple for growing and sale in the US, and the US Food and Drug Administration is now engaging in a voluntary food safety assessment consultation with the company. A 2012 survey commissioned by the BC Fruit Growers’ Association and the Feder...
Rx for Medicare: 'heavy lifting' ahead to sway Congress; lawmakers more intent on providing prescription drug plans, coverage for uninsured seniors than fi... The article reports on the petition made by several national and state organizations of physicians to House and Senate leaders urging lawmak...
The two main publicly-funded health insurance programs are Medicare — the federal insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities — and Medica... TW House 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Retiree Health Plan Drug Benefits in Light of the New Medicare Drug Law Though the MMA has provisions to...
This is because many workless families are held back by disadvantages such as debt, drug and alcohol dependency, and by homelessness. Suffering from the family problems, many children face a greater and greater possibility of repeating the poor outcomes of their parents. Government resear...
What’s more, seniors account for 20 percent of the voting public. It’s little wonder that the May 19 Supreme Court ruling got the attention of drug manufacturers and politicians across the country. The often-over-looked state of 1.3 million tucked in the northeast corner of the coun...
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