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Health maintenance organization

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In the United States, a health maintenance organization (HMO) is a medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee. [1]

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AARP

AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons) is a United States-based interest group whose stated mission is "empowering people to choose how they live as they age." According to the organization, as of 2018, it had more than 38 million members.

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Accountable care organization

An accountable care organization (ACO) is a healthcare organization that ties payments to quality metrics and the cost of care.

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Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), founded in 1979, is an American organization which accredits ambulatory health care organizations, including ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery centers, endoscopy centers, and college student health centers, as well as health plans, such as health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations.

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Adva Center

Adva Center is a non-partisan Israeli policy analysis center based in Tel Aviv.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study) is a research study conducted by the American health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Aetna

Aetna Inc.

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Allison Janney

Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress.

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America's Health Insurance Plans

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is a national political advocacy and trade association with about 1,300 member companies that sell health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans.

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American Medical Association

The American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of physicians—both MDs and DOs—and medical students in the United States.

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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.

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AmeriHealth

AmeriHealth New Jersey is a provider of health insurance to nearly 260,000 employers and individuals throughout New Jersey.

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Amitai Ziv

Amitai Ziv, MD, MHA (born 29 July 1958) is an Israeli physician, professor of Medical Education at Tel Aviv University, Deputy Director of the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, founder and Director of MSR - The Israel Center for Medical Simulation.

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Anatomical pathology

Anatomical pathology (Commonwealth) or Anatomic pathology (U.S.) is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the macroscopic, microscopic, biochemical, immunologic and molecular examination of organs and tissues.

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Benjamin Leon

Benjamin Leon, Jr. is an American businessman and horse enthusiast.

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Bet Tzedek Legal Services – The House of Justice

Bet Tzedek is an American non-profit human and poverty rights organization, internationally recognized for its work in providing unique advocacy and support for people living in poverty, and for communities victimized by discrimination and civil rights abuses.

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Betsy McCaughey

Elizabeth McCaughey (born Elizabeth Helen Peterken, October 20, 1948), formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, is an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki.

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Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, played by Vincent Pastore, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 36 separate United States health insurance organizations and companies, providing health insurance in the United States to more than 106 million people.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) is a state licensed private health insurance company under the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association with headquarters in Boston.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is an independent licensee of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

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BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina (BCBSSC) is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

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Blumwes' buildings in Bydgoszcz

Carl and Wilhelm Blumwe were successful German entrepreneurs, industrialists and businessmen in Bromberg from the second half of the 19th century.

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Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 American documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore.

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Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Bundled payment

Bundled payment, also known as episode-based payment, episode payment, episode-of-care payment, case rate, evidence-based case rate, global bundled payment, global payment, package pricing, or packaged pricing, is defined as the reimbursement of health care providers (such as hospitals and physicians) "on the basis of expected costs for defined episodes of care." It has been described as "a middle ground" between fee-for-service reimbursement (in which providers are paid for each service rendered to a patient) and capitation (in which providers are paid a "lump sum" per patient regardless of how many services the patient receives), given that risk is shared between payer and provider.

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California Department of Managed Health Care

The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) is a regulatory body governing managed health care plans, sometimes referred to as Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) in California.

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California Insurance Equality Act

The California Insurance Equality Act (AB 2208) is a state law that requires California insurance providers and managed care plans (HMOs) to provide coverage for registered domestic partners that is equal to spousal coverage.

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California Medical Association

The California Medical Association (CMA) is a professional organization representing more than 43,000 physicians in the state of California.

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CalPERS

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is an agency in the California executive branch that "manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.6 million California public employees, retirees, and their families".

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Capitation (healthcare)

Capitation is a payment arrangement for health care service providers such as physicians or nurse practitioners.

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Care Continuum Alliance

The Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance) is an industry trade group of corporations and individuals that "promotes the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for individuals with chronic conditions and those at risk for developing chronic conditions".

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CareSource

CareSource is a nonprofit that began as a managed health care plan serving Medicaid members in Ohio.

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Case management (US health system)

Case management is a managed care technique within the health care coverage system of the United States.

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Case Medical Centre

Case Medical Centre, also known as Case Hospital, is an urban, private, upscale, tertiary hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.

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Charlotte Vandervalk

Charlotte Vandervalk (born July 31, 1937) is an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1991 until 2012, representing the 39th legislative district.

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Chiropractic

Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine.

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Chris Van Hollen

Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (born January 10, 1959) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Maryland since January 3, 2017.

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Clinton health care plan of 1993

The Clinton health care plan, was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton.

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Columbia, Maryland

Columbia is a census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States, and is one of the principal cities of the Baltimore metropolitan area.

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Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area is the metropolitan area centered on the U.S. city of Columbus, Ohio.

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Comparison of the healthcare systems in Canada and the United States

Comparison of the healthcare systems in Canada and the United States is often made by government, public health and public policy analysts.

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Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985

The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (or COBRA) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress on a reconciliation basis and signed by President Ronald Reagan that, among other things, mandates an insurance program which gives some employees the ability to continue health insurance coverage after leaving employment.

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Consumer Watchdog

Consumer Watchdog (formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights) is a non-profit, progressive organization which advocates for taxpayer and consumer interests, with a focus on insurance, health care, political reform, privacy and energy.

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Crash (2004 film)

Crash is a 2004 American drama film produced, directed, and co-written by Paul Haggis.

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Daniel V. Jones

Daniel Victor Jones (April 15, 1958 April 30, 1998) was an American man who committed suicide on a Los Angeles freeway in 1998.

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David Cutler

David Matthew Cutler (born June 22, 1965) is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University.

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David E. Kelley

David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, Big Little Lies, and Mr. Mercedes, as well as several films.

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David T. Ellwood

David T. Ellwood is an American educator and university administrator.

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Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born Dianne Emiel Goldman, June 22, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992.

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Dietitian

A dietitian (or dietician) is an expert in dietetics; that is, human nutrition and the regulation of diet.

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Disease management (health)

Disease management is defined as "a system of coordinated healthcare interventions and communications for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant."Congressional Budget Office.

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Dr. Dynasaur

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Dr. Ken

Dr.

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Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River.

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Eagle Mountain Railroad

The Eagle Mountain Railroad (EMRR) was a private railroad in California, owned by the Kaiser Steel Corporation, and is owned today by Kaiser Steel's successor, Kaiser Ventures, Inc.

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

Eastern Maine Medical Center (frequently shorted to Eastern Maine or simply EMMC) is a hospital located in Bangor, Maine that serves communities throughout central, eastern, and northern Maine.

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Eleanor Sobel

Eleanor Sobel (born February 11, 1946) is a Democratic member of the Florida State Senate, representing the 33rd District, which includes Davie, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines in southeastern Broward County, since 2012, previously representing the 31st District from 2008 to 2012.

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Enhanced Primary Care Case Management Program

Primary Care Case Management (PCCM), is a program of the United States government healthcare service Medicaid.

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Ernie Fletcher

Ernest Lee "Ernie" Fletcher (born November 12, 1952) is an American physician and politician.

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Exclusive provider organization

In the United States, an exclusive provider organization is a hybrid health insurance plan in which a primary care provider is not necessary, but health care providers must be seen within a predetermined network.

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Express Scripts

Express Scripts Holding Company is an American Fortune 100 company.

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Fallon Health

Founded in 1977, Fallon Health (formerly Fallon Community Health Plan) is a Worcester, Massachusetts-based provider of health insurance and health care services.

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Family centered care

Family-centered care or Family-centered service has been discussed and promoted most prominently in the context of child health, and especially concerning chronic conditions of childhood.

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Family Guy Viewer Mail 1

"Family Guy Viewer Mail #1" is the 21st episode of the third season of Family Guy, first aired on February 14, 2002.

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Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is a system of "managed competition" through which employee health benefits are provided to civilian government employees and annuitants of the United States government.

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Federico A. Moreno

Federico A. Moreno (born April 10, 1952) is an American lawyer and Judge.

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Fee-for-service

Fee-for-service (FFS) is a payment model where services are unbundled and paid for separately.

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Fey's Sleigh Ride

"Fey's Sleigh Ride" is an episode from the dramedy series Ugly Betty.

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For-profit hospital

For-profit hospitals, sometimes referred to as alternatively investor-owned hospitals, are investor-owned chains of hospitals.

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Form 1023

Form 1023 is a United States IRS tax form, also known as the Application for Recognition of Exemption Under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Geisinger Health System

The Geisinger Health System (GHS) is a health care system of northeastern and central Pennsylvania with headquarters located in Danville, Pennsylvania.

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Gerry E. Hinton

Gerry Earl Hinton (June 30, 1930 – July 2, 2000) was a chiropractor from Slidell, Louisiana, who served from 1984 to 1996 as a member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 11 in suburban New Orleans, including St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes.

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Glaucoma

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases which result in damage to the optic nerve and vision loss.

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Golden Rule Insurance Company

Golden Rule Insurance Company is a UnitedHealthcare company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., and has offered insurance to individuals and families for more than 60 years.

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Gordon K. MacLeod

Gordon Kenneth MacLeod, MD (1929–2007) was a physician and professor of health services administration at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, who also served as the state of Pennsylvania's secretary of health (1979–1980).

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Gray Davis

Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.

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Grigori Rasputin in popular culture

The life of Grigori Rasputin has been the subject of a variety of media since his death in 1916.

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Harris Berman

Harris A. Berman (born c. 1938) is an American physician and the dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan is a not-for-profit health services company based in the New England region of the United States.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly Harvard School of Public Health) is the public health graduate school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts adjacent Harvard Medical School.

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Hawaii Medical Service Association

Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) is a nonprofit health insurer in the state of Hawaii.

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Hayim Association

The HAYIM Association for Children with Cancer in Israel (עמותת חיים) is a non-governmental organization that works on a voluntary basis to provide relief and support for pediatric oncology patients in Israel.

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Health coaching

Health coaching is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical interventions and strategies to actively and safely engage client/patients in health behavior change.

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Health insurance

Health insurance is insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses, spreading the risk over a large number of persons.

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Health insurance costs in the United States

Health insurance costs in the United States are a major factor in access to health coverage.

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Health insurance in the United States

Health insurance in the United States is any program that helps pay for medical expenses, whether through privately purchased insurance, social insurance, or a social welfare program funded by the government.

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Health insurance mandate

A health insurance mandate is either an employer or individual mandate to obtain private health insurance instead of (or in addition to) a national health insurance plan.

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Health Insurance Plan of New Jersey

Health Insurance Plan of New Jersey or HIP of New Jersey was a Health Maintenance Organization in New Jersey that was declared insolvent in 1998 and filed for bankruptcy in 1999.

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Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973

The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 (Pub. L. 93-222 codified as 42 U.S.C. §300e) is a United States statute enacted on December 29, 1973.

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Health Net

Health Net, Inc., a Centene company, is an American health care insurance provider.

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Health policy

Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".

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Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set

The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

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Healthcare rationing in the United States

Healthcare rationing in the United States exists in various forms.

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Healthcare reform debate in the United States

The healthcare reform debate in the United States has been a political issue focusing upon increasing medical coverage, decreasing costs, insurance reform, and the philosophy of its provision, funding, and government involvement.

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Healthcare reform in the United States

Healthcare reform in the United States has a long history.

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Henry J. Kaiser

Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding.

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Herb Kohl

Herbert H. "Herb" Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is an American businessman and politician.

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High-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant

High-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant (HDC/BMT), also high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplant (HDC/ABMT or just ABMT), was a treatment regimen for metastatic breast cancer, and later high-risk breast cancer, that was considered promising during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Hip (disambiguation)

The hip is an anatomical region and a joint.

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Histadrut

Histadrut or the General Organization of Workers in Israel originally (ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael) is Israel's national trade union centre, representing the majority of trade unionists in the State of Israel.

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History of health care reform in the United States

The history of health care reform in the United States has spanned many years with health care reform having been the subject of political debate since the early part of the 20th century.

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HMO (disambiguation)

An HMO is a health maintenance organization, an organization that provides or arranges managed care.

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House (TV series)

House (also called House, M.D.) is an American television medical drama that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012.

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Howard County General Hospital

Howard County General Hospital is a 267-bed, not-for-profit health care provider located in Columbia, Maryland.

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Independent practice association

An independent practice association (or IPA) is a US term for an association of independent physicians, or other organization that contracts with independent physicians, and provides services to managed care organizations on a negotiated per capita rate, flat retainer fee, or negotiated fee-for-service basis.

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Index of sociology articles

This is an index of sociology articles.

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Integrated delivery system

An integrated delivery system (IDS) is a network of health care organizations under a parent holding company.

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Intensive outpatient program

An intensive outpatient program (IOP) is a kind of treatment service and support program used primarily to treat eating disorders, depression, self harm and chemical dependency that does not rely on detoxification.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Jamie Court

Jamie Court (born 1967) is an American author, political activist, lobbyist, and consumer advocate.

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Jeffery Cohelan

Jeffery Cohelan (June 24, 1914 – February 15, 1999) was a United States Representative from California.

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Jerrold Hercenberg

Jerrold J. Hercenberg, JD, MPA, is a subject-matter expert for the health care industry and has been on the cutting edge of numerous innovations over the last 30 years.

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John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, a seat he was first elected to in 1986.

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John Q.

John Q. is a 2002 American drama film starring Denzel Washington and directed by Nick Cassavetes.

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Johnny Valentine

John Theodore Wisniski (September 22, 1928 – April 24, 2001), better known by his ring name Johnny Valentine, was an American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades.

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Joseph Avellone

Joseph Charles "Joe" Avellone III, M.D. (born September 29, 1948) is an American medical doctor, businessman, and politician from Massachusetts.

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Kadic Hospital

Kadic Hospital, also known as Kadic Medical Centre, is an urban, private, hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.

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Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente (KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.

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Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital

The Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital was the first Kaiser Permanente Hospital and is a historic site resource of the city of Richmond, California,, Richmond City Council, June 19, 2001, retrieved September 8, 2007 from City of Richmond website's records and a contributing property to Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Kaiser Shipyards

The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the United States west coast during World War II.

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Kaiser Westside Medical Center

Kaiser Westside Medical Center is a hospital in the Tanasbourne neighborhood in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Kampala Medical Chambers Hospital

Kampala Medical Chambers Hospital (KMCH), is a private hospital in Uganda.

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Kiekrz, Poznań

Kiekrz is part of the city of Poznań in western Poland, situated on the northwest edge of the city, adjoining Kierskie Lake.

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Kupat Holim Meuhedet

Kupat Holim Meuhedet (קופת חולים מאוחדת, lit. Special Sickness Fund), is Israel's third largest health maintenance organization (HMO).

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Lake County, Minnesota

Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Last Holiday (2006 film)

Last Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Queen Latifah and directed by Wayne Wang.

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Legal nurse consultant

A legal nurse consultant (LNC) is a registered nurse who uses expertise as a health care provider and specialized training to consult on medical-related legal cases.

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Leonard Abramson

Leonard Abramson (born 1932) is the founder and was the CEO of U.S. Healthcare, and has become a major philanthropist in the Philadelphia area.

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Lien

A lien is a form of security interest granted over an item of property to secure the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation.

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Lillian Roberts

Lillian Davis Roberts (born January 2, 1928) served from 2002 through 2014 as the Executive Director of District Council 37 (DC37), the largest municipal union in New York City.

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Linda Peeno

Linda Peeno is an American physician, ethicist, and lecturer known for being a whistleblower against the American managed healthcare industry.

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List of acronyms: H

(Main list of acronyms).

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List of acts of the 104th United States Congress

The list of acts of the 104th United States Congress includes all Acts of Congress and ratified treaties by the 104th United States Congress, which lasted from January 3, 1995 to January 3, 1997.

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List of Boston Legal episodes

Boston Legal is an American legal drama-comedy (dramedy) created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC.

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List of General Hospital: Night Shift characters

The following notable characters originated on General Hospital: Night Shift, which is a prime time spin-off of the American ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital.

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List of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing

The Living Legend designation from the American Academy of Nursing is bestowed upon a very small number of nurses "in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and our society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world." Each Living Legend has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) for at least 15 years.

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List of MeSH codes (N03)

The following is a list of the "N" codes for MeSH.

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List of MeSH codes (N04)

The following is a list of the "N" codes for MeSH.

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List of Monk characters

The following is a list of characters of Monk, an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk.

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List of Schlock Mercenary characters

This article is about the characters from Schlock Mercenary, a space opera webcomic.

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List of St. Elsewhere characters

This is a list of characters from the medical drama St. Elsewhere.

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Live television

Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.

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Los simuladores

Los Simuladores (The Pretenders) is an Argentine television series about a small team of con artists for hire, who use their skills to solve common people's life problems.

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Ma'ale Adumim

Ma'ale Adumim (מַעֲלֵה אֲדֻמִּים, معالي أدوميم) is an urban Israeli settlement and a city in the West Bank, seven kilometers from Jerusalem.

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Maccabi Healthcare Services

Maccabi Health Services (Hebrew: מכבי שירותי בריאות, formerly Maccabi Fund for the Ill, Hebrew: קופת חולים מכבי) is one of the four Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) currently active in Israel.

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Managed care

The term "managed care" or "managed healthcare" is used in the United States to describe a group of activities ostensibly intended to reduce the cost of providing for profit health care while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques").

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Mandate

Mandate may refer to.

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Mandatory spending

The United States federal budget is divided into three categories: mandatory spending, discretionary spending, and interest on debt.

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Mark J. Green

Mark Joseph Green (born March 15, 1945) is an American author, former public official, public interest lawyer and a Democratic politician from New York City.

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Mary Loos

Mary Loos (May 6, 1910 – October 11, 2004) was an American actress, screenwriter and novelist.

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Max Baucus

Max Sieben Baucus (born Enke; December 11, 1941) is a retired American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014.

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McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967.

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McLaren–Greater Lansing Hospital

McLaren Greater Lansing (MGL) (formerly Ingham Regional Medical Center) (IRMC) is a hospital in Lansing, Michigan.

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Medicaid managed care

Medicaid managed care Medicaid and additional services in the United States through an arrangement between a state Medicaid agency and managed care organizations (MCOs) that accept a set payment – "capitation" – for these services.

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Medical City Dallas Hospital

Medical City Dallas is a hospital located at 7777 Forest Lane, just west of North Central Expressway (US 75), in north Dallas, Texas (USA).

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Medical home

The medical home, also known as the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team-based health care delivery model led by a health care provider to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain maximal health outcomes.

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Medical-surgical nursing

Medical-surgical nursing is a nursing specialty area concerned with the care of adult patients in a broad range of settings.

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Medicare (United States)

In the United States, Medicare is a national health insurance program, now administered by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services of the U.S. federal government but begun in 1966 under the Social Security Administration.

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Medicare Advantage

Medicare Advantage is a type of health insurance that provides coverage within Part C of Medicare in the United States.

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Medicare dual eligible

Dual-eligible beneficiaries (Medicare dual eligibles or "duals") refers to those qualifying for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

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Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, also called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA, is a federal law of the United States, enacted in 2003.

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Mekor Baruch

Mekor Baruch (מקור ברוך, lit., "blessed source" or "fountain of blessing") also spelled Makor Baruch, is a neighborhood in Jerusalem.

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Melinda Katz

Melinda R. Katz (born August 19, 1965) is an American politician from New York City who is currently the Queens Borough President.

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MetLife

MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates.

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Michael Drobot

Michael Drobot is an entrepreneur and hospital administrator who had pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest fraud in California history.

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Michelle Paige Paterson

Michelle R. Paige Paterson (born April 1, 1961 in Fairfield, California) was the First Lady of New York state.

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Misgav Ladach

Misgav Ladach (מִשְׂגָּב לַדָּךְ) is a hospital in Jerusalem, Israel that belongs to Kupat Holim Meuhedet, Israel's third largest HMO.

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Molina Healthcare

Molina Healthcare is a managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States.

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MSR - The Israel Center for Medical Simulation

medications and give feedback to procedures such as defibrillation MSR - The Israel Center for Medical Simulation (Hebrew: מסר - המרכז הארצי לסימולציה רפואית) is Israel's national institute for Simulation-Based Medical Education (SBME) and Patient Safety training.

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Nakasero Hospital

Nakasero Hospital Limited (NHL), commonly referred to as Nakasero Hospital, is a private, for profit hospital in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.

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National Association Medical Staff Services

National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS), established in 1971, has over 6,000 members nationwide and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Association seeks to provide educational opportunities for its members, as well as to foster public awareness of the role of medical staff professionals in the provision of safe, effective healthcare.

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Nicholas Cummings

Nicholas Andrew Cummings (born July 25, 1924) is an American psychologist and author.

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Northern Pacific Railway

The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.

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Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center

Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center is a 921-bed, not-for-profit, regional medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that offers a full range of medical, surgical, rehabilitative and behavioral health services.

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Oakland Medical Center

Oakland Medical Center, also known as Kaiser Oakland, is a hospital located in Oakland, California, United States, at the intersection of MacArthur Boulevard and Broadway, immediately above downtown Oakland.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

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Patient Self-Determination Act

The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.

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Patients' rights

A patient's bill of rights is a list of guarantees for those receiving medical care.

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Paul DiGaetano

Paul DiGaetano (born October 28, 1953) is the current Bergen County Republican Organization Chairman.

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Paul M. Ellwood Jr.

Paul M. Ellwood Jr. (born 16 July 1926) is a prominent figure in American health care.

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Paulie Gualtieri

Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri is a fictional character played by Tony Sirico on the HBO series The Sopranos.

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Pay for performance (healthcare)

In the healthcare industry, pay for performance (P4P), also known as "value-based purchasing", is a payment model that offers financial incentives to physicians, hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare providers for meeting certain performance measures.

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Pegram v. Herdrich

Pegram v. Herdrich,, was a United States Supreme Court case that held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 does not provide a remedy for coverage determinations by health maintenance organizations.

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Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva (פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה,, "Opening of Hope"), also known as Em HaMoshavot ("Mother of the Moshavot"), is a city in the Central District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.

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Pharmacy benefit management

In the United States, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is a third-party administrator (TPA) of prescription drug programs for commercial health plans, self-insured employer plans, Medicare Part D plans, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and state government employee plans.

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Philosophy of healthcare

The philosophy of healthcare is the study of the ethics, processes, and people which constitute the maintenance of health for human beings.

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Pilot (House)

"Pilot", also known as "Everybody Lies", is the first episode of the U.S. television series House.

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Pilot (Ugly Betty)

"Pilot" (also known as "I Am Not Going to Sell Herbalux") is the debut episode for the dramedy series Ugly Betty.

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Point of service plan

A point of service plan, is a type of managed care health insurance plan in the United States.

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Policy entrepreneur

Policy entrepreneur refers to an individual who takes advantage of opportunities to influence policy outcomes to increase their self-interests.

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Political positions of Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein is the current senior senator in the U.S. Senate representing California.

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Political positions of John Edwards

Here are some of Senator John Edwards's votes and remarks on various issues.

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Preferred provider organization

In health insurance in the United States, a preferred provider organization (or PPO, sometimes referred to as a participating provider organization or preferred provider option) is a managed care organization of medical doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who have agreed with an insurer or a third-party administrator to provide health care at reduced rates to the insurer's or administrator's clients.

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Prenatal care in the United States

Prenatal care in the United States is a health care recommended to women as a type of preventive care with the goal of providing regular check-ups that allow obstetricians-gynecologists or midwives to detect, treat and prevent potential health problems throughout the course of pregnancy while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child.

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Presidency of Richard Nixon

The presidency of Richard Nixon began at noon EST on January 20, 1969, when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States, and ended on August 9, 1974, when he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, the first U.S. president ever to do so.

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Primary care case management

Primary Care Case Management (PCCM) is a system of managed care used by state Medicaid agencies in which a primary care provider is responsible for approving and monitoring the care of enrolled Medicaid beneficiaries, typically for a small monthly case management fee in addition to fee-for-service reimbursement for treatment.

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Primary care physician

A primary care physician is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis.

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ProMedica

ProMedica is a non-profit health care system with locations in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan.

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Public Employees Federation

The Public Employees Federation (PEF) is an American union representing 54,000 professional, scientific, and technical public employees in the state of New York.

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Rabin Medical Center

Rabin Medical Center (מרכז רפואי רבין) is a major hospital and medical center located in Petah Tikva, Israel.

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RAND Health Insurance Experiment

The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was an experimental study of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United States, which assigned people randomly to different kinds of plans and followed their behavior, from 1974 to 1982.

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Reed Gusciora

Walter Reed Gusciora (born March 27, 1960) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1996, where he represents the 15th Legislative District.

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Resource-based relative value scale

Resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) is a schema used to determine how much money medical providers should be paid.

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Richard Baron (physician)

Richard J. Baron, MD, MACP (born June 3, 1953) is the President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and ABIM Foundation.

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Richard Chaifetz

Richard A. Chaifetz or Richard Chaifetz is a businessman, investor, licensed neuropsychologist, and philanthropist.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Richmond Medical Center

Richmond Medical Center also known as Kaiser Richmond, Kaiser Foundation Hospital Richmond and RMC is a large Kaiser Permanente hospital in downtown Richmond, California which serves 77,000 members registered under its medical plans.

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Richmond, California

Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States.

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Robert Provan

Robert James Provan (September 14, 1944July 6, 2006) was an attorney at law who practiced in Texas and is most noted for his bringing the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States against a health maintenance organization (HMO) on behalf of physician's using the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 that the Wall Street Journal said was poised to become a major test case and whose rulings have been cited in other cases.

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Ross-Loos Medical Group

Ross-Loos Medical Group was a comprehensive prepaid health services plan with 29 medical offices throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in California and a large multi-specialty hospital located on Temple Street (Los Angeles).

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Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran

Rush Prudential HMO, Inc.

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Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare is the result of a first-of-its-kind health care joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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SCAN Health Plan

SCAN Health Plan (SCAN) is a not-for-profit health plan founded in 1977 and based in Long Beach, California.

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Schlock Mercenary

Schlock Mercenary is a comedic webcomic written and drawn by Howard Tayler.

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Screening cultures

Screening culture is a type a medical test that is done to find an infection.

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Senate career of John McCain, 2001–2014

John McCain ran for US president in the 2000 presidential election, but failed to gain the Republican Party nomination, losing to George W. Bush in a campaign that included a bitter battle during the South Carolina primary.

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Sicko

Sicko is a 2007 American documentary film made by filmmaker Michael Moore.

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Sidney Garfield

Sidney R. Garfield (17 April 1906 – 29 December 1984) was a medical doctor and a pioneer of health maintenance organizations.

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Socialized medicine

Socialized medicine is a term used in the United States to describe and discuss systems of universal health care: medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation.

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Soroka Medical Center

Soroka Medical Center, located in Beersheba, Israel, is a major medical center in the Negev/ It is the largest medical center in the southern region of the country, and the second largest in Israel with 1,063 beds.

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St. Elizabeth Health Services

St.

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St. Vincent's HealthCare

St.

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Standing wheelchair

A standing wheelchair (also known as a standing chair) is assistive technology, similar to a standing frame, that allows a wheelchair user to raise the chair from a seated to a standing position.

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Stillfried Castle

Stillfried Castle (Polish: Zamek Stillfriedów, German: Palais Stillfried) - the former residence of the aristocratic Stillfried family, whose members were barons, built at the end of the 14th century, however the earliest record of the castle comes from 1352.

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Straus Street

Straus Street (רחוב שטראוס, Rehov Straus) is a north-south road in north-central Jerusalem.

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Street Smarts

Street Smarts was a United States game show that featured two in-studio contestants trying to predict the outcome of interviews of people who were found on the street.

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Stress in early childhood

Early childhood is a critical period in a child’s life that includes ages from conception to five years old.

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Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982

The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, also known as TEFRA, is a United States federal law that rescinded some of the effects of the Kemp-Roth Act passed the year before.

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Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a public pension plan of the State of Texas.

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Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.

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Teladoc

Teladoc, Inc. (formerly Teladoc Medical Services) is a telehealth company that uses telephone and videoconferencing technology to provide on-demand remote medical care via mobile devices, the internet, video and phone.

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The Cheating Culture

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead is a nonfiction book, authored by David Callahan and published by Harcourt in 2004.

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The Hospital

The Hospital is a 1971 satirical film directed by Arthur Hiller.

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Thiomersal controversy

The thiomersal controversy describes claims that vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thiomersal contribute to the development of autism and other brain development disorders.

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Time-based currency

In economics, a time-based currency is an alternative currency or exchange system where the unit of account/value is the person-hour or some other time unit.

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Tokio Marine HCC

Tokio Marine HCC is an international specialty insurance group with offices across the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Ireland.

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Tom Meek

Tom Meek (born 1956) is an American columnist and author of "Another Day In Cyberville" published weekly in The Gainesville Voice, a New York Times regional newspaper, beginning in October, 2000 in The Gainesville Sun.

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Tricare

Tricare (styled TRICARE), formerly known as the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System.

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Trinity Hospital (Little Rock, Arkansas)

Trinity Hospital is a historic former hospital, now a mixed-used commercial and residential building, at 20th and Main Streets in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Two-sided market

Two-sided markets, also called two-sided networks, are economic platforms having two distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits.

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UAB Hospital

UAB Hospital is a Level I trauma center hospital located in Birmingham, Alabama.

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United States labor law

United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States.

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United States Senate election in Florida, 2012

The 2012 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 6, 2012, alongside a presidential election, other elections to the United States Congress, as well as various state and local elections.

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United States Senate election in Michigan, 2012

The 2012 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 6, 2012, alongside a presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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United States Senate election in Missouri, 2012

The 2012 United States Senate election in Missouri was held on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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United States Senate election in Utah, 2012

The 2012 United States Senate election in Utah took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and as various state and local elections.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is a $16 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 80,000 employees, over 35 hospitals with more than 8,000 licensed beds, 600 clinical locations including outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 3.4 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and international ventures.

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Vaccine Safety Datalink

The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse effects of vaccines.

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Wake Forest Baptist Health Wilkes Medical Center

Wilkes Medical Center is a 130-bed, medical center in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, that offers a full range of medical, surgical, rehabilitative, pathology, ophthalmology and behavioral health services.

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Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter (born July 16, 1951) is an American consumer advocate, New York Times bestselling author, consultant, and former health insurance industry executive.

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William W. McGuire

William "Bill" McGuire, M.D. (born 1948) is an American pulmonologist, lepidopterist, philanthropist, and healthcare executive, best known for his tenure as chairman and chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group from 1991 until his resignation in 2006.

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Winslow Carlton

Winslow Carlton (1907 – December 6, 1994) was an American businessman and organizer of cooperatives.

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Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act

The U.S. Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, signed into law on October 21, 1998, contains protections for patients who elect breast reconstruction in connection with a mastectomy.

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Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Yvonne Agazarian

Yvonne M. Agazarian (born Feb 17, 1929; died Oct 9, 2017) was the principal architect of systems-centered therapy, based on a theory of Living Human Systems that she also developed.

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