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The Greatest Advance for Women in a Generation

Posted by Jean Silver-Isenstadt, MD, PhD, NPA Executive Director January 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM

I attended a health policy conference last week where the buzz was women.  The question on everyone’s mind was: Why aren’t American women angrier that every last one of the Republican candidates for president has threatened to repeal a law that has brought the greatest advance for women in a generation?   The experts had an [...]

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The Value of Medicaid

Posted by Adair Parr, MD, JD July 18, 2011 at 10:22 AM

An editorial published on July 17, 2011 in the New York Times underscores the value of Medicaid. The editorial notes that recent claims that Medicaid patients receive poor care have been refuted by a recent randomized controlled trial conducted in Oregon. The study is being published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and was [...]

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NPA In Action

Posted by Adair Parr, MD, JD May 4, 2011 at 4:35 PM

Check out this blog by NPA Board Member, Ricky Choi, MD, MPH in a blog post in the San Francisco Chronicle. He discusses the bill in Florida proposing to ban physicians from asking their patients about gun ownership.

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