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Families USA has a different view of the uninsured than the federal government. The group says that while the Census Bureaus Current Population Survey estimated there were 43.6 million uninsured people in the United States in 2002, 14.6% more than in 2001, the reality is that 81.8 million people or one out of three Americans younger than 65 were without health insurance for all or part of 2002 or 2003.
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The question about the single most important change to recommend for Medicaid was one of several posed by moderator Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, to a panel of experts convened for a symposium on the future of Medicaid at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
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Many Medicaid reports from national organizations discuss concerns with the program by using national averages. But an FY 2005 Medicaid report from the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council shows the impact the program has in the state that ranks second in the nation in per-capita spending on Medicaid and gives recommendations for increased efficiencies that may be of assistance to other states.
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This brief, individual CBT intervention, developed specifically to alter hypochondriacal thinking and restructure hypochondriacal beliefs, appears to have significant beneficial long-term effects on the symptoms of hypochondriasis.
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Antihypertensive Treatment and Measurement at Home or in the Physicians Office; Inactivated Intranasal Influenza Vaccine and the Risk of Bells Palsy; Topiramate for Migraine Prevention
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In this paper from 2 Italian centers, Pappone and colleagues report the results of a randomized trial of prophylactic catheter ablation in previously asymptomatic patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
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Talreja and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, reviewed biopsy specimens and clinical features of 143 patients who had pericardiectomy for proven pericardial constriction.
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A recent study by a University of Michigan cardiologist on behalf of a Michigan-wide angioplasty research group produced a sobering statistic: Of 1,551 heart attack patients who had emergency angioplasty at hospitals in Michigan, women waited on average more than 118 minutes before treatment began, compared with 105 minutes for men.
