Puerto Rico’s Center for a New Economy has been included in the seventh annual 2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, the most comprehensive ranking of the world’s top think tanks commissioned by the World Bank. The nonprofit ranked 69th among the world’s 80 “think tanks to watch.”
Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla, publicly expressed his full support to the Puerto Rico Medicare Coalition for Fairness’ efforts aimed at repairing disparities in Medicare funding to the island during the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 Health and Insurance conference that took place this week at the Condado Plaza Hilton hotel.
Amidst a long lasting recession, Medicare program benefits in Puerto Rico re suffering the largest funding cuts in the United States, estimated at $700 million since the Affordable Care Act began to be implemented in 2011, healthcare leaders from the Puerto Rico Medicare Coalition for Fairness said Monday.