Word: meara
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...Ellen R. Meara, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the research, suggested there could be several explanations for the disparity...
...There could be structural differences that are at work here: the uninsured could go to different medical facilities or wait to seek medical care,” Meara said. “Doctors may order similar procedures, but make it more difficult for an uninsured patient to receive them. There are still factors worth exploring, but we continue to see evidence that the uninsured are receiving different care, less care...
...other end of the spectrum are businesses that have planned for the flu but don't necessarily know how far they can go legally. "The question I'm hearing a lot is, Can employers send workers home involuntarily?" says Daniel P. O'Meara, a labor lawyer at Montgomery, McCracken, in Berwyn, Pa. The Occupational Safety and Health Act contains a general duties clause that specifies that employers must keep a safe workplace, which can be used to justify sending a sick employee home, he says. In this sluggish economy, however, resistance is to be expected...
...Some employers are worried that people will come to work sick because of fear of being laid off," says O'Meara. He suggests that owners assuage those concerns by adapting flexible policies, such as letting staffers who have used up all their paid days off borrow from next year's allotment, telecommute or make up the lost time in other ways. The important thing, he says, is to follow government guidelines, send your employee home, and worry later how and if to pay them...
Though the turnover for receiving funds has been fairly rapid, according to Meara, Harvard researchers have only seen about $90,000 of the proposed grant sums...