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Confidentiality/legislation & jurisprudence , Genetic Testing/legislation & jurisprudence , Insurance/standards , Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Genetic Testing/psychology , Health Policy , Humans , Insurance/legislation & jurisprudence , Preventive Medicine/economics , Preventive Medicine/legislation & jurisprudence , Public Opinion , Risk Assessment , Truth Disclosure , United StatesABSTRACT
Many of the nation's governors are moving from short-term cost cures of the 1980s to sweeping health reform laws. States' ability to remain flexible in how they undertake reform remains a critical concern to governors as they size up the Clinton health plan, especially its call for a national budget.
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Health Care Reform/legislation & jurisprudence , Medicaid/economics , State Health Plans/legislation & jurisprudence , Costs and Cost Analysis , Medicaid/legislation & jurisprudence , State Health Plans/economics , United StatesSubject(s)
Economics, Hospital/trends , Medical Indigency , Population , Adult , Data Collection , Humans , Middle Aged , TexasABSTRACT
Throughout development, Mongolian gerbils engage in conspicuous naso-oral investigations of their social partners' mouth areas. The behavioral contribution of saliva-related stimuli in regulating oral-directed responses was studied during several important phases of the gerbil's social life. Weanlings were preferentially attracted to their mother's saliva, subadults at puberty preferred saliva of littermates to that of nonlittermates, and sexually experienced males preferred the saliva of estrous females to that of nonestrous females. The use of saliva as a discriminative cue during various developmental periods suggests that oral chemostimuli have a perennial role in regulating social interchanges.