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Dirt-Poor Nation, With a Health Plan

New York Times - 06/15/2010 - By: DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.

Rwanda has had national health insurance for 11 years now; 92 percent of the nation is covered, and the premiums are $2 a year.

The Benefits of Blowing Your Top

Research in the past few years has found that people develop a variety of psychological tools to manage what they express in social situations, and those techniques often become subconscious, affecting interactions in unintended ways.

Putting Patients at the Center of the Medical Home
New York Times - 07/15/2010 - By: PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.

For several years now and with a growing messianic fervor, physicians and health care experts have been responding to the need to deliver more efficient and better primary care with one response: patient-centered medical homes.

Collect Now, or Later? Timing Your Social Security Benefits
New York Times - 07/10/2010 - By: TARA SIEGEL BERNARD

Collecting Social Security as soon as you are eligible is a tempting proposition — but experts agree you should try to resist if you can. The majority of people don’t follow that advice, choosing instead to start benefits early. Why wait to collect what is rightfully yours?...read more...

V.A. Is Easing Rules to Cover Stress Disorder
New York Times - 07/07/2009 - By: JAMES DAO

The government is preparing to issue new rules that will make it substantially easier for veterans who have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability benefits, a change that could affect hundreds of thousands of veterans from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.