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Clinic and Hospital Closings

…and how that compares to the newly proposed funding for rural areas through the rural health fund. This analysis estimates the likely effects in rural areas by building on KFF’s estimated…

A Mixed Bag of Consumer Spending

…Middle- and higher-income households have stronger wage growth, but higher-income spending is likely also benefiting from wealth effects. The discretionary spending of the top 5% of households by income tends…

Medicare Advantage

…the inflated benchmarks resulting from quality bonuses and county adjustments lead to overpayments of approximately 5 percent.45 The effects of supplemental coverage on traditional Medicare benchmarks When MA plans submit…

Work First . . .

…having children. Still, the researchers found that both of these ambition effects benefitted men more than women. Friedrich and his coauthors found that the behavior of their model matched up…

Women in Clinical Trials

…women experiencing different and also adverse effects to medications and treatments than what was experienced by men in NIH Clinical trials. It is thought the NIH’s Inclusion Policy established requirements…

Figuring the costs of minimum wage hikes

…the minimum wage proposal has been put on the table, there is this back-and-forth argument about whether there are negative employment effects from raising minimum wage. There’s almost verbatim this…