Word: carefulness
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Former Rhodes Scholar Troyen Brennan, an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, was among the fellows selected this year. He said he would study changes occuring in medical practice, specifically "changes in the relationship of doctors to the health care system...
Kimberly B. Ladin '88, who has been active inthe union drive and helped council members draftthe measure, said the board decision ignored theefforts of people "who put a lot of research and alot of care into the words of the resolution...
Government spending for long-term care should triple to $18 billion a year in order to help combat the problem, and this money can be raised, in part, with higher taxes, she says...
...result, part of the answer to the problem may lie with increasing government spending. Rivlin says that Medicare should be expanded to accomodate long-term health care costs, since the federally funded medical insurance program does not currently cover such expenses...
Medicare, a social insurance program, is available to all Americans over 65 regardless of their financial situation, whereas Medicaid, a welfare program, is given only to those who demonstrate the financial need for the money. If Medicare were expanded to cover long-term care costs, it would also remove a significant burden currently placed on Medicaid funds to cover such expenses, says Rivlin, who received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard...