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CVS Health: Breathing a Little Easier and Holding Our Breath
CVS has officially stopped selling cigarettes and other tobacco products, a move that will cost the pharmacy chain about $2 billion in annual profits. It's difficult to say if this will affect smoking. For now, the ban is most significant for what it represents symbolically.
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Sep 12, 2014
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William G. Shadel

Tobacco and Smoking

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CVS and the Effect of In-Store Tobacco Displays on Smokers
CVS Caremark will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its CVS/pharmacy stores beginning Oct. 1. Though it stands to lose $2 billion dollars in annual revenue, CVS CEO Larry J. Merlo said that selling tobacco products is at odds with the company's mission of improving health outcomes.
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Feb 6, 2014
Health Care Costs

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Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars (No. 4-7)
Focusing on smaller, more focused approaches can identify less controversial opportunities for modest health care savings.
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Jan 15, 2014
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Quick Takes: The Convenience Revolution in the Treatment of Minor Health Problems
Convenient options for treating minor health problems are an important new feature of the health care landscape. Ateev Mehrotra discusses these options and their implications for the medical marketplace.
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Nov 26, 2013
Health Care Access

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Attempts by States to Save Money by Locking Medicaid Enrollees out of the ED Are Likely to Backfire
In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, we argue that attempts by states to save money by seeking to lock Medicaid enrollees out of the emergency department are likely to backfire. We argue that a better solution is to reverse what for many years has been a trend of shrinking access to primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries.
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May 21, 2012
Robin M. Weinick

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

Book Review: 'Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat' by Sarah Percy

Creating the Uncrewed-Centric Navy of the Mid–21st Century

The Safety and Security of the U.S. Maritime Environment

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Retail Health Care Clinics

CVS Health: Breathing a Little Easier and Holding Our Breath

CVS and the Effect of In-Store Tobacco Displays on Smokers

Small Ideas for Saving Big Health Care Dollars (No. 4-7)

Quick Takes: The Convenience Revolution in the Treatment of Minor Health Problems

Attempts by States to Save Money by Locking Medicaid Enrollees out of the ED Are Likely to Backfire

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