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Old Dogs, New Tricks: Why More Seniors Are Starting Companies | The Atlantic

December 17, 2011

We're set to become "a planet that's a whole lot more crowded--with old people," Phillip Longman, a senior research fellow on health policy at the New America Foundation, lamented in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy. ...

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An 'Encore' Life Beckons … on the Far Side of Midlife | National Journal

December 15, 2011

We're set to become “a planet that's a whole lot more crowded—with old people,” Phillip Longman, a senior research fellow on health policy at the New America Foundation, lamented in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy. ...

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Politics Have Always Been Part of Policy -- But Have We Hit a New Low? | California Healthline

December 14, 2011

(The lobbying battle and its long-running implications are richly detailed by Shannon Brownlee.) While AHCPR was ultimately preserved, it wasn't untouched. The agency's budget was trimmed by 21% and its name was notably changed: "Policy" was dropped ...

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Burden in the Balance | Akron Beacon Journal

November 14, 2011

Phillip Longman, writing in the most recent issue of the Washington Monthly, proposes contracting with high-quality, lower-cost nonprofit health-care systems, the likes of Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic, to handle the Medicare population. ...

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In Medicine, Sometimes It's Better To Do Nothing | The Globe And Mail

November 14, 2011

The reality was exposed in a sobering book by journalist Shannon Brownlee entitled Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. The issue has also been taken up in a couple of recent US reports. In May, the Good Stewardship ...

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Merck, Gilmartin, Vioxx—and Drucker | BusinessWeek

October 7, 2011

But as Shannon Brownlee reported in her book Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer: “The company sold billions of dollars' worth of Vioxx over the four and a half years the drug was on the market, most of it after worries ...

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New Report: Falling Birth, Marriage Rates Linked To Global Economic Slowdown | University of Virginia

October 4, 2011

Phillip Longman, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a co-author of the report, said, "On current course, China is headed for demographic trouble, compared to other rising economic powers like India. Although marriage remains strong in ...

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How Declining Birth Rates Hurt Global Economies | NPR

October 3, 2011

A new study about the trend suggests this demographic shift could drag down the global economy. The report is called "The Sustainable Demographic Dividend." Co-author Phillip Longman, a senior research fellow with the New America Foundation, ...

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Modern Economies 'Rise and Fall' with Nuclear Families, Study Says | The Washington Times

October 3, 2011

Elsewhere, “the average woman in a developed country now bears just 1.66 children,” New America Foundation scholar Phillip Longman writes in the report. Marriage also matters, the report says. Children raised in married, mother-father homes are the ...

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As Europe Ages, Its Economies Look Vulnerable | NPR

September 24, 2011

... "To make people have children they don't want to have, that's beyond the power of any despot," says Phillip Longman, a demographer at the New America Foundation. ...

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