Emergency federal dollars given to the unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic bolstered health care spending as jobless rates skyrocketed, a new University of Michigan study found.
Economics & Business
Oct 12, 2021
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Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health insurers to help ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 12, 2011
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It's likely the world in the not-so-distant future will be increasingly populated by computerized people like Amal Graafstra.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 24, 2013
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(AP) -- The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn't need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon.
Internet
Dec 31, 2011
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(Phys.org) —Single mothers in the U.S. went without health insurance coverage for an average of more than nine months during the country's most recent economic recession, and mothers who were underemployed went without ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2013
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A new study finds that children who received expanded Medicaid benefits in the 1980s and 1990s contributed more to the U.S. tax system as adults. They also were more likely to attend college and less likely to die prematurely ...
Economics & Business
Jan 12, 2015
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The value of health insurance should be included in official measures of U.S. income and poverty, because it will help us to better evaluate public policies like Obamacare, according to a new study by a Cornell economist ...
Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2012
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If you would like to produce good quantitative social-science research, try remembering these two words: "ceteris paribus."
Economics & Business
Dec 1, 2014
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Public spending appears to have contributed substantially to the fact that life expectancy in eastern Germany has not only increased, but is now almost equivalent to life expectancy in the west. While the possible connection ...
Economics & Business
Oct 15, 2014
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Customer service calls can be frustrating for consumers and agents alike. But MIT spinout Cogito believes it can use behavioral analytics to make those experiences less onerous.
Computer Sciences
Jan 20, 2016
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