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Mental Health and Medicaid
Medicaid covers 15 million adults representing 25% of all Medicaid recipients and 5% of America's population (KFF). The effects of poverty make Medicaid recipients significantly more likely to suffer from mental illness. ...
Reproductive Health Care: The Role of Medicaid
Through my research, I found that Medicaid's coverage throughout time has expanded and contracted, placing different emphasis on different aspects of reproductive health care. However, reproductive health care ethics ...
Oral Health Disparities: A Gradient Remedied Through Educational Programs
Dental health in the context of larger health in the United States is a vital area of research as it has a direct impact on overall health, equality of opportunity in the work force, and generational dental health. This ...
Health, Wealth and Poverty: Why the U.S. Needs Universal Healthcare
Among industrialized nations, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine cited by the World Health Organiztion have some form of universal healthcare. The exception is the United States. Poor people are the most likely to be uninsured ...
[HIV Treatment and Prevention for Indigent Patients]
Over the last ten years, advances in HIV treatment and better prevention programs have greatly slowed the rate of deaths for infected people; however, these advances have not been made widely available. This paper looks ...
Discrediting Neo-Liberalism: The Social Democratic Welfare State Of The Netherlands
This essay explores how the welfare state has managed to prosper in spite of conventional economic "wisdom". Unlike the United States, which has followed neo-liberal economic policies at the expense of the highest rates ...