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Improving Care of People with Serious Medical Illness: An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
In 2020, Schaeffer Center established an Advisory Panel on Palliative Care. In this post, the panel outlines next steps to increase the quality of care of frail people with multiple chronic conditions.
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In Memoriam: Michael Parks, Founder of the Center for Health Reporting
Pulitzer Prize winner, former editor of the Los Angeles Times and director of USC Annenberg’s Journalism School, Parks played an outsized role in the conception and implementation of the Center.
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People Who Are Bad With Numbers Often Find It Harder to Make Ends Meet – Even if They Are Not Poor
People from 141 countries were asked if 10% was bigger than, smaller than or the same as 1 out of 10. People who answered this incorrectly also reported having issues with personal finance.
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How Did the Public U.S. Drugmakers’ Sales, Expenses and Profits Change Over Time?
Understanding what drives pharmaceutical firms’ revenue growth is critical to developing evidence-based policies that curb drug costs without reducing the industry’s innovations.
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A Quick Guide to Climate Change Jargon – What Experts Mean By Mitigation, Carbon Neutral and 6 Other Key Terms
A guide to common terms used by climate scientists and climate journalists translated into everyday language.
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Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technologies: The U.S. Should do More to Speed Entry of Breakthrough Devices to Market
Equally pressing to FDA approval is the need to secure coverage from Medicare and Medicaid.
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Greater Spouse and Survivor Benefits Do Not Change Retirement Decisions
A working paper that analyzes worker and spouse Social Security incentives and investigates whether an additional dollar of benefit paid to a worker’s spouse or survivor is valued the same as an additional dollar of benefit paid to the worker.
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Leveraging Rapid Antigen Tests in School-Aged Children
To keep schools safe, students enrolled at LAUSD schools were required to show a negative COVID-19 test in the two weeks prior to the first day. Is this a good use of scarce resources?
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How COVID Changed Life in Los Angeles: Recent Findings from a Longitudinal Survey
Data collected from Los Angeles residents between November 2020 and April 2021 offers insights into views on crime, public transit and other topics compared with pre-pandemic views.
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It is Time for the U.S. to Create a National COVID-19 Vaccination Registry
Schaeffer Center expert Jakub Hlávka writes that the U.S. is hurting itself by not having a single vaccination registry, which would enable faster reopening of key sectors of the economy as well as of international travel.
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