News 2013
Medicaid Expansion May Be Key To Restoring State Mental Health Funding
The recent mass killings in Tucson, Aurora and Newtown have sparked public conversations about the deficiencies in state-run mental health systems across the United States. But few states are poised to spend their own money to reverse as much as a decade of budget cutbacks in those areas.
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Hospices, Wary Of Costs, May Be Discouraging Patients With High Expenses
Many people who are terminally ill delay entering hospice care until just a few days or weeks before they die, in part because they or their families don't want to admit that there's no hope for a cure.
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A Plan to Serve Homeless Youth in a State With the Largest Need
It’s estimated that anywhere from 1.8 million to 2.1 million young people are homeless each year in the U.S., and more of them reside in California than anywhere else. In San Francisco alone, an estimated 5,700 youth are homeless each year, according to Larkin Street Youth Services.
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Who Knew? Patients’ Share Of Health Spending Is Shrinking
Consumer-driven medical spending may be the second-biggest story in health care, after the Affordable Care Act. As employers give workers more "skin in the game" through higher costs from purse and paycheck, the thinking goes, they'll seek more efficient treatment and hold down overall spending.
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Pew Online Health 2013 Report
Earlier this week, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released their 2013 Health Report which provides us with information about how people are going online to access health information. Pew found that one in three American adults have gone online to learn more about a medical condition.