The cost of expanding health insurance coverage increases when people who would otherwise purchase insurance obtain public coverage. This paper investigates the effects of one of the first efforts to target insurance benefits to the most needy, the 1982 medicare as secondary payer (MSP) provisions. We find strong evidence of low compliance with the MSP both in terms of medical bill payments (pa...

This study examined the effect of involvement in mutual support groups on long-term recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other vulnerable individuals. From qualitative interviews with nine group members, the study identified key themes, benefits, and barriers related to involvement in the groups. Content analysis of the data revealed insights about characteristics of...

Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of health mainly based on plant drugs is of late, regaining the confidence of the people in India and abroad. Quite ironically, our vegetal wealth is getting more and more impoverished due to indiscriminate deforestation. This is ominous for Ayurveda and its enthusiasts. The article highlights the portends that this devastation holds for this science. Probab...

The Personal Responsibility Act (PRA), is the latest attempt by Congress to reduce welfare dependency. The PRA would convert the federal entitlement status of the AID to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) to state block grants called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Returning the responsibility for social services to the states will promote flexibility in redesigning programs...

Model. The primary exposure variable was a time­varying covariate that indicated whether a beneficiary had expe­ rienced an interruption of Medicaid coverage in the prior month. Confounders adjusted for in the model included demographic characteristics, type of Medicaid coverage (ie, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families [TANF], Supple­ mental Security Income [SSI], or other), non­Medicaid for...

Nowadays, people are familiar with online communication and tend to express their deeper feelings on the Web. In the light of this situation, we present a hybrid system based on affect analysis for mining emotional distress tendencies from publicly available blogs to identify needy people in order to provide timely intervention and promote better public health. We describe the system architectu...

Before 1990 many state Medicaid programs maintained "restrictive" formularies, which denied reimbursement for unlisted prescription drugs. This type of formulary has been criticized for denying important medications to poor, medically needy persons. As part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, restrictive formularies in Medicaid programs were disallowed. Based on research into the ...

The Social Security Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-603) established a national program with uniform payment standards and eligibility requirements for the needy aged, blind, and disabled. The supplemental security income (SSI) program replaced the federally assisted, State-administered programs of old-age assistance, aid to the blind, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled. In Janua...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) fundamentally altered the safety net for lowincome families. PRWORA eliminated the 61-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and its companion welfare-to-work program—the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) training program. The new law provides states with block grants to establi...

Objectives:Nowadays, spinal cord lesions, specially its injury, is one of the diseases/injuries that humanbeing is been affected by. It , not only, causes irreversible economical/social/cultural problems & uncompensated costs to the patient’s family & society ,but also , makes active peoples to inactive & needy ones. Till now, there is no successful treatment for these patients; so this ailment...