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Study: Investment in community health saves states millions
While states are struggling to hold their budgets together, keeping basic services in place can pay off. That's definitely the case when it comes to primary care, according to a new study conducted... Read more...
Free health clinics face more patients, less funding
While the economy may be recovering just a bit, times continue to be immensely difficult for free health clinics, whose patients loads are continuing to rise while corporate sponsors and charity cut... Read more...
Case study: Minnesota clinics boosted by stimulus
Though nobody likes doing such things, Minnesota officials are planning cuts to public health programs. Luckily, it seems stimulus funding will help offset these cuts, by boosting the strength of the... Read more...
Study: FL could save $700M/year by boosting primary care access
A new research paper prepared on behalf of the Florida legislature concludes that the state could save as much as $700 million a year on healthcare by making sure its citizens had adequate access to... Read more...
Bush Administration re-funds community health centers
At a time when access to primary healthcare is proving increasingly important--especially for hospitals that want to avoid needless emergency department trips--it's probably looking like good news to... Read more...
Tobacco settlement to fund healthcare in Washington, DC
It's been ten years since Washington, DC was awarded $245 million--its share of the tobacco industry's 1998 historical class action settlement with the states. Rand Corp. has produced a report to... Read more...
One system for poor, another for well-heeled
Does it make sense to break up the healthcare system into two tracks, one for patients who have the bucks for care and another for the poor? It does to Mark Moran, the interim chief executive officer... Read more...
