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September 17, 2012
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Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
April 15, 2011
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Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.
June 14, 2004
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From 1998 to 2003, the Employee Benefit Research Institute conducted six annual Health Confidence Surveys (1998 to 2003) to describe public opinions about health care in the United States and how they change over time.
October 1, 2000
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From 1996 to 1998, Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., conducted research in three areas:
September 30, 1998
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In 1997, the Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change convened leading health policy academics, practitioners, and policy-makers for a conference on the future of Medicare and then published a book of papers from the conference.
May 1, 2006
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The state of California implemented the California Partnership for Long Term Care (CPLTC) - its public-private partnership to finance long-term care - in 1994.
January 1, 2007
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Connecticut became the first state to implement a public-private partnership to finance long-term care, allowing purchasers to keep control of their assets equal to the amount the insurance policy paid for long-term care services.
May 31, 2011
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The University of Michigan conducted development and evaluation work on the Michigan Managed Long-Term Care Initiative, which allows eligible adults to receive Medicaid-covered services in their homes.
April 27, 2011
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Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.
April 25, 2011
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"We made sure we developed both centralized and individualized curricula that addressed the needs expressed by each participating site" in the Vermont Better Jobs, Better Care project, said the project director.
April 25, 2011
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The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.
