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J Feder

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PubMed1994

How physicians will benefit under Clinton's plan. A talk with Judith Feder, PhD. Interview by Amber Stenger.

President Clinton's healthcare reform plan will be good for primary care physicians, according to Judith Feder, one of the administration's top health policy advisers. During a 20-minute phone interview recently, she told POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE that the goal is to reduce governmental and other kinds of hassles for practitioners while holding them accountable for results. Her responses to other concerns of physicians follow.

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PubMed1993

Explaining the recent growth in Medicaid spending.

Medicaid spending more than doubled from 1988 to 1992, reversing a long trend of cost containment in the program. Reasons for the cost explosion are severalfold. (1) Congress expanded eligibility to more children, pregnant women, and low-income elderly persons. (2) The recession has added more people to the Medicaid rolls. (3) Growing numbers of disabled cash assistance recipients have increased Medicaid enrollment. (4) States have increased their use of federal Medicaid funds to supplement previously state-funded programs and have become more skillful in leveraging federal funds to defray the cost of their Medicaid programs. This DataWatch explores the relative impact of enrollment changes, inflation, and increased reimbursement on the increase in Medicaid spending.

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PubMed1992

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PubMed1992

Young physicians most and least likely to have second thoughts about a career in medicine.

To identify factors associated with apparent disaffection with medicine as a career, the authors analyzed data for 4,931 young physicians surveyed in 1987. Using survey responses, the authors classified 932 of the physicians (18.9%) as most likely to have second thoughts about their career choices and 1,094 (22.2%) as least likely to have second thoughts. The group with the greatest reservations included significantly higher proportions of white women, blacks, and Hispanics. This group reported significantly lower incomes, higher educational debt, and more hours and patients' visits per week. Among employee physicians, those most disaffected were significantly more likely to report inappropriate use of tests and procedures and lack of autonomy in their practices. The authors conclude that it is important to reexamine the heavy reliance on debt financing of medical education, especially for minority students, and to explore the equality of career opportunities for women and minorities in medicine.

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PubMed1992

Helping oneself by helping others: evaluation of a service credit banking demonstration.

Between 1987 and 1990, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded six service credit banking demonstration programs among the elderly in which participants delivered services in return for credits, entitling them to later service. This evaluation of the demonstrations found that these six sites successfully attracted elders for the delivery of household support services to a relatively old, frail population with potentially limited social networks. Evidence on the significance of the "credit" in attracting volunteers was mixed, but the programs have attracted new volunteers, and have not substituted for other volunteer activities. Program development has entailed considerable staff investment in volunteer support; programs are better understood as community membership organizations than as mechanical exchanges.

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