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J R Price

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PubMed1983

Stability in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

Recently the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program has been the subject of much discussion in Washington as a result of the rather large premium increases in 1982 and 1983, the delayed open season of 1981, and the benefit reductions. Enrollees responded in May 1982 to the changes; a record number switched plans. It appears that enrollees were simply responding to the new premiums and benefits. In this paper we describe the economic incentives faced by enrollees in the FEHBP. We find that, due to the strong incentives for enrollees to leave certain high-cost plans, continued instability should be expected. In fact, the disparity between expected benefits and premium is so great for some plans (e.g. the Blue Cross high-option) that their survival is questionable. This lack of stability raises important questions about the viability of some pro-competition proposals involving multiple-insurer systems.

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Evaluation of a VNA mental health project.

Using a quasi-experimental design, discharged psychiatric patients referred to the Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland during a nine-month period were randomly assigned to treatment or control groups. Patients were interviewed twice--after hospital discharge and six months later. Of the 110 patients who completed both interviews, which included a socially expected activities form, 62 were female, 63 nonwhite, 108 from the lowest two levels of socioeconomic status, and 74 schizophrenic. Six months postdischarge a 14% increase in employment was noted in the treatment group, who received nursing services, but no change was noted in the control group. Control group members (57%) were more likely to miss taking their prescribed medicines than were treatment group members (36%). Readmission occurred more frequently in the control (34%) than in the treatment group (28%). No difference was noted between the two groups on socially expected activities scores, possibly because: 1) the categories of the instrument may be too broad to discriminate between groups that are similar in their adjustment, 2) six months may not be a long enough time interval, 3) many patients had characteristics identified as "unfavorable" in reported studies, 4) an average of 2.3 visits a month by the nurses may not be adequate for the patients referred to this agency.

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An examination of some reputed antifertility plants.

Solvent extracts prepared from 80 plant species reputed to show antifertility effects on human beings or from species closely related to such plants, showed no significant antifertility activity when fed to rats.

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