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967
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In North Carolina, questions remain about the concept of managed competition as a solution to the health care problem.
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203
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O'Connor discusses the high cost of health care with an emphasis on the cost of insuring employees of municipalities.
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1480
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Local governments would face an increase in the number of employees and dependents for which they would be required to pay premiums under the Clinton Health Security Plan.
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36274
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Medical advancements possible over the next decade included cryopreservation, controlling prosthetic limbs with the mind, and nanotechnology. Areas projected for improvement or further development over the next ten years included gene therapy, noninvasive technology, and cure of Dementia diseases. As for an area the author acknowledges is not clear, it involves medical ethics: when to cease providing procedures, especially where age is concerned.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 2, February 2016,
p52-57
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1428
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By 1995, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are projected to account for 75% of the health care market. In response to this trend, pharmaceutical firms are adjusting their business and marketing practices.
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Large segments of the state's population have little or no health coverage, which has definite consequences for the health care system and for the economy.
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North Carolina Insight
(NoCar JK 4101 N3x), Vol. 13 Issue 3-4, Nov 1991,
p20-42, il, bibl, f
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1478
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The State Health Plan Purchasing Alliance (SHPPA) applies the old idea of the food co-op to health insurance. By banding together, small businesses (in this case, two to forty-nine employees) hope to save money on health insurance.
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27863
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Many people with eating disorders are exhausting their savings for treatment and some are dying from a lack of insurance coverage. Insurers often do not cover treatment for eating disorders. Area resident Amy Lambert details her struggle with the disorder and its financial burden. Chase Bannister who directs the Carolina House in Durham explains what his treatment facility does to help and Tori Toles of UNC’s Eating Disorder Program also discusses the problems for those wanting treatment.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 8, February 2010,
p5-7
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27752
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The teens that make up Wake County’s Youth Empowered Solutions team are lobbying for school health centers in Wake County Schools. The county currently has over 27,000 uninsured teens. The centers would serve as a doctor’s office on school grounds for those students are low-income or uninsured. These centers do not currently exist in Wake County, but YES’s efforts to change this have earned them a Citizen Award form IndyWeek.
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27740
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A look at those uninsured in North Carolina as the state legislature considers their decision to deny health coverage to North Carolinians. A number of graphs with data from the 2012 census survey show who is uninsured in North Carolina. Latinos, part-time workers, and the under-educated are most at risk at not being covered under current conditions.
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