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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.
February 16, 2012
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Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington were among the first to offer CHIP to children in families earning more than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Researchers at UCLA and the RAND Corp. evaluated the impact of this effort.
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.
October 15, 2009
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State Solutions was designed to increase enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs).
December 1, 2006
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From January to December 2004, Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth explored the barriers that Vietnamese and Chinese immigrant children face in obtaining health care.
March 1, 2005
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Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children led the Statewide Covering Kids and Families Coalition in an effort to increase the number of eligible children in the state enrolled in government-funded health insurance coverage programs.
June 22, 2004
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The National Association of State Units on Aging designed and tested a tool and process that allow states the opportunity to evaluate the extent to which they offer consumers opportunities to make choices and direct their own health care and support services.
January 1, 2003
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From 1993 to 2001, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, developed and implemented Community Health in Focus, a program designed to use the convening role of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to stimulate action on health care issues identified by local communities.
March 1, 2002
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Duke University supported four premedical students to work as summer interns in community-based health clinics across the country.
September 1, 2002
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The Private Adjudication Center, an affiliate of Duke University School of Law, wrote a paper and held a conference examining issues regarding the use of court-ordered arbitration in medical malpractice cases.
January 1, 2001
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During 1995 and 1996, investigators at Kalkines, Arky, Zall and Bernstein took a snapshot of the state of the health care safety net in four major urban areas (Boston, Miami, Philadelphia, and New York City).
