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COLUMN: North Carolina is breaking hearts | Health and Fitness
One of the best reviews of a state’s return on investment in Medicaid expansion was done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which reviewed over 1,000 separate studies. They found that in those states that adopted Medicaid expansion, total employment grew 1.3%, more than those states that did not adopt. For example, Colorado experienced 31,074 additional …
A new frontier for medical technology
Around 8 p.m. on Jan. 20, I received the call: A test had confirmed that one of the hospitals where I oversee clinical care, in Everett, Wash., had admitted the first Covid-19 patient in the U.S. The coronavirus bomb went off in our corner of the country that day, and we quickly realized that the …
