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Assuring Access to Care Under Health Reform: The Key Role of Workforce Policy
Examines policy and practical options for addressing the projected shortage of primary care physicians to ensure access to health care under expanded insurance coverage, including reorganizing practices to make productive use of nurses and other staff
The Value of Clinical Practice Guidelines as Malpractice "Safe Harbors"
Examines the extent to which evidence-based recommendations for optimizing patient care could help reduce provider defensiveness and overutilization. Outlines context for and challenges in designing and implementing clinical guidelines as policy reform
The Role of Prevention in Bending the Cost Curve
Examines how much disease prevention, including those funded in the 2010 healthcare reform law such as diabetes and HIV prevention, smoking cessation, community interventions, and reducing racial/ethnic disparities, can help slow health spending growth
Thermal storage experience at the MSSTF and plans for the future
The background of thermal storage development at the Midtemperature Solar Systems Test Facility is reviewed. The problems which were encountered are discussed and a course of action for resolving the problems is outlined. Scaling effects of going from laboratory models to full-size applications were determined and applied to thermal storage needs in near-term solar projects
What Directions for Public Health Under the Affordable Care Act?
Outlines opportunities for public health efforts under the 2010 healthcare reform law, such as building prevention into insurance expansion and boosting innovation in population health, as well as challenges, such as budget constraints
Spectrum of TeV Particles in Warped Supersymmetric Grand Unification
In warped supersymmetric grand unification, XY gauge particles appear near
the TeV scale along with Kaluza-Klein towers of the standard model gauge
fields. In spite of this exotic low-energy physics, MSSM gauge coupling
unification is preserved and proton decay is naturally suppressed. In this
paper we study in detail the low-lying mass spectrum of superparticles and GUT
particles in this theory, taking supersymmetry breaking to be localized to the
TeV brane. The masses of the MSSM particles, Kaluza-Klein modes, and XY states
are all determined by two parameters, one which fixes the strength of the
supersymmetry breaking and the other which sets the scale of the infrared
brane. A particularly interesting result is that for relatively strong
supersymmetry breaking, the XY gauginos and the lowest Kaluza-Klein excitations
of the MSSM gauginos may both lie within reach of the LHC, providing the
possibility that the underlying unified gauge symmetry and the enhanced N=2
supersymmetry of the theory will both be revealed.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figure
Administrative Performance of “No-Fault” Compensation for Medical Injury
No-fault is the leading alternative to traditional liability systems for resolving medically caused injuries, and policy interest in such reform reflects numerous concerns with the traditional tort system as it operates in the medical field through malpractice insurance. The administrative experience of the Florida and Virginia no-fault programs is examined
COBRA Subsidies for Laid-Off Workers: An Initial Report Card
Reviews the implementation of the government subsidy of COBRA health insurance premiums for laid-off workers in the 2009 stimulus package and its effects on COBRA enrollment and medical spending. Considers policy implications for access and affordability
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