Ready for ACA? How Community Health Centers Are Preparing for Health Care Reform

Community health centers (CHCs) are a cornerstone of the health care safety net. They are the primary source of care for many low-income populations, including both those newly insured under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and those who were left out and will remain uninsured. The ACA provides challenges and opportunities for CHCs, which will require significant changes in infrastructure and care delivery approaches to meet those challenges. This policy brief assesses the progress made by CHCs in Los Angeles County in meeting a number of key indicators of ACA readiness in early 2014. The authors find that 39 percent of CHCs are well prepared, 23 percent have made some progress, and the rest are at the initial phases of preparation and/or lack adequate resources to meet the requirements. CHCs in the latter group will require help to embark on strategic improvements in infrastructure and care deliver

Morphological paradigms in language processing and language disorders

We present results from two cross-modal morphological priming experiments investigating regular person and number inflection on finite verbs in German. We found asymmetries in the priming patterns between different affixes that can be predicted from the structure of the paradigm. We also report data from language disorders which indicate that inflectional errors produced by language-impaired adults and children tend to occur within a given paradigm dimension, rather than randomly across the paradigm. We conclude that morphological paradigms are used by the human language processor and can be systematically affected in language disorders

Outer Marker Beacon: The Seventh Circuit Confirms the Contours of Federal Question Jurisdiction in \u3cem\u3eBennett v. Southwest Airlines Co.\u3c/em\u3e

In Bennett v. Southwest Airlines Co., the Seventh Circuit was asked to rule on the contours of federal question jurisdiction. In the court’s analysis, it offered a recitation of the evolution of the boundaries of federal question jurisdiction where federal issues are embedded in state law claims. This history, especially in the Supreme Court, has been characterized by change. Much of the first 100 years of federal question jurisdiction, governed by the statutory grant of § 1331, was more broadly defined than the recent interpretation represented by the Modern Test announced by the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue Engineering & Manufacturing. The trend on the national level appears to be moving towards greater restrictions on the types of cases that gain access to the federal courts. In particular, the recent introduction of caseload factors into the jurisdictional calculus, through the second prong of the Modern Test, raises questions as to whether these restrictions may have gone too far. This Note discusses the Seventh Circuit’s application of the Supreme Court\u27s new Modern Test and reviews the implications of the caseload prong