Public health insurance provides insured infants better, less costly care than private plans

In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it’s widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than public insurance.

But a first-of-its-kind study of newly available government data found just the opposite for infants covered by insurance, says economist Manan Roy in SMU’s Department of Economics. Continue reading →

SMU physicists at CERN find hints of long sought after Higgs boson — dubbed the fundamental “God” particle. Continue reading →
Anthropology study finds that immigrants from India and Vietnam become American over time. Continue reading →
A mathematical model determines which nations are more stable and which are more likely to break up. Continue reading →
Vast clean energy source confirmed by Google.org-funded geothermal mapping. Continue reading →

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