U.S. median income rises, but is still 6% below its 2007 level, By Robert Pear, August 21, 2013, New York Times: “Median household income has begun to recover over the last two years, but households still have not come close to regaining the purchasing power they had before the financial crisis began, a new study says. The study, issued on Wednesday by two former Census Bureau officials, suggests why many people remain glum even though the economy is growing and unemployment has declined…”
Day: August 21, 2013
Doctors and Medicaid Patients – New Jersey
N.J. doctors least likely to accept new Medicaid patients, survey says, By Susan K. Livio, August 18, 2013, Star-Ledger: “Beginning in January, the Affordable Care Act is expected to open the door to 300,000 low-income New Jerseyans to get health coverage through Medicaid, but a recent survey found the majority of Garden State doctors won’t be willing to treat them. Fifty-four percent of primary care doctors and 56.5 percent of specialists in New Jersey said they did not plan to accept any new Medicaid patients in the coming year — more than any other state, according to a July report in the monthly publication Health Affairs…”