Day: May 19, 2011

On The Record

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Summary of numerous fiscal plans (updated) CMS: HITECH (health info) Medicaid conference, Baltimore, MD May 24-26, free registration CMS:

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Social Security disability woes

Dylan Matthews underlines the need for reform of the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security, playing off of a story in today’s WSJ about

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Risky business

Austin posted this interesting figure from Averill, et al. (JACM, 2010): A few legal comments (I can’t help it): Insurance companies are generally regulated by the

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Predicting college completion

I’m a pediatrician.  I can’t help myself. Here’s one more chart from The State of Working America: This is the percent of children who finish

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Poverty by age

Here’s another great chart from The State of Working America: You’re looking at poverty rates from 1959-2009, by different age groups. Almost one quarter of

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