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With a grant from the DC Cancer Consortium and the Washington, D.C. Department of Health, the Fund produced a patient booklet (DCIS: What you need to Know [4]) for women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). The Fund developed an online Medscape Continuing Medical Education (CME) course for medical professionals on breast cancer ...
Without health insurance, adults are more likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers that would have been detectable earlier by screening by a clinician if they had regularly visited a doctor. As a consequence, these adults are more likely to die from their diagnosed cancer or suffer poorer health outcomes. [77] [83]
A 2009 study done at Harvard Medical School with Cambridge Health Alliance by cofounders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a pro-single payer lobbying group, showed that nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with a lack of patient health insurance. The study also found that uninsured, working Americans have an approximately 40% ...
Erika Diarte-Carr, 30, initially set a GoFundMe campaign goal of $5,000 to cover the cost of a future service, but more than 30,000 donors have since helped her raise $900,000 as of Sunday, Sept ...
Private Health Insurance Rebate: The government subsidises the premiums for all private health insurance cover, including hospital and ancillary (extras), by 10%, 20% or 30%, depending on age. The Rudd Government announced in May 2009 that as of July 2010, the Rebate would become means-tested, and offered on a sliding scale.
Access to cataract surgery is very variable by country and region. Even in developed countries availability may vary significantly between rural and more densely populated areas. Cataract surgery is the removal of the natural lens of the eye that has developed a cataract, an opaque or cloudy area. [1]
The 2008 edition of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care [29] found that providing Medicare beneficiaries with severe chronic illnesses with more intense health care in the last two years of life—increased spending, more tests, more procedures and longer hospital stays—is not associated with better patient outcomes. There are significant ...
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