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Games (Some) People Play | By Kim Bellard, May 13, 2013

I have to admit that I am a child of the television age, with movies as a close second.  I never really got into video games, like PacMan, Tetris, Mario Brothers, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto or even Madden NFL, and am only now belatedly becoming addicted to Angry Birds.  As I suspect is true of many of us old health care pros, I am also late to the potential revolution that video games offer for health care...click to continue

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5 Things the Oregon Medicaid Study Tells Us About American Health Care

1. Preventive care isn’t all it’s cracked up to be: The Oregon study found that people on Medicaid got more preventive care than those in the uninsured control group
2. We need more quality control in medicine: The fact that payments to doctors and hospitals don’t depend on health outcomes in most cases is an enormous problem
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