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• Fewer Americans were uninsured in 2007

  August 27, 2008 in Current Events, HC Statistics, Health Insurance

  According to the U.S. Census: Both the percentage and number of people without health insurance decreased in 2007. The percentage without health insurance …

• Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Russia

  August 26, 2008 in International Health Care Systems

  Merrill Goozner writes about MDR-TB in Russia in a four-part feature article in Scientific American.

• Why Charles Barkley is healthy

  August 26, 2008 in Obesity

  The New York Times writes that its “Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit.”

• Risk Aversion in the Laboratory

  August 26, 2008 in Experimental

  Many experimental economists have been interested in measuring the level of risk aversion as well as the determinants of risk aversion. These studies often take place in a controlled, laboratory setting and designing an …

• Should low quality hopsitals be given more or less money?

  August 25, 2008 in Hospitals, Medicaid/Medicare, Quality

  Recently, the San Diego Union Tribune reported that the Sharp Grossmont Hospital in …