Brandon Merritt and Ted Boettner: Medicaid expansion saves money, helps

Brandon Merritt and Ted Boettner: Medicaid expansion saves money, helps

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Currently, Medicaid and private insurance companies are not required to cover substance abuse treatment. However … It will also save state taxpayers millions of dollars by allowing mental health centers to receive federal funds for substance abuse …
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1st Global Guidance Announced on Neurostimulation for Pain

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The guidance was announced at the start of the 11th World Congress of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS) in Berlin. "Neuromodulation provides pain physicians an established therapeutic alternative to long-term opioid use when treating …
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Ghosts of the Rio Grande

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Urban centers have sprouted up around the international crossing points at Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville, where residents are twice as likely to speak Spanish than English. Outside of these areas, the vast, vacant properties …
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Professor couldn't escape his past as an abusing priest

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The 62-year-old man lying dead inside was David Primeaux, a Virginia Commonwealth University associate professor respected by his colleagues in the university's computer science department, where he had taught since 1996, and liked by his students, who …
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