http://ripr.org en http://ripr.org/post/primary-care-and-graduate-medical-education-funding-new-model <p>A new <a href="http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Teaching_Health_Centers___A_New_Paradigm_in.99524.aspx">study </a>in the journal <em>Academic Medicine</em> provides one of the first looks at a program created by the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to train more primary care doctors. It’s a pretty different model than the traditional one, where the government, through Medicare, makes payments to teaching hospitals to help fund graduate medical education (like a residency program for doctors-in-training).</p> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:29:17 +0000 Kristin Gourlay 4692 at http://ripr.org Primary Care and Graduate Medical Education Funding: A New Model? http://ripr.org/post/health-benefits-exchanges-spotlight-literally <p>States that have chosen to make their own online marketplaces for health insurance are moving ahead, some more quickly than others. And there’s no time to lose: these exchanges have to come online in 2014, under the Affordable Care Act timeline. (Here’s an <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/state-actions-to-implement-the-health-benefit-exch.aspx">update </a>on where states are with their exchanges.)</p> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000 Kristin Gourlay 8291 at http://ripr.org