Atomic Bombs, WWII and Texas Health Insurance

This story of war, science, and health care policy opens in 1950, five years after the end of World War II. Researchers identified more than 86,000 people who survived the atomic blasts. By using their distance from ground zero, whether they were indoors or outside, and other factors, the scientists estimated each person's radiation dose. Then, they waited and watched. As the years passed survivors grew old and died. Each death and its cause was cataloged and compared to the death of other people who were illuminated by the radioactive rays of the atomic bombs.

Last year the Texas legislature passed a law requiring insurance companies to cover CT scans to look for calcium deposits in arteries that feed blood to the muscle of the heart. These deposits may indicate that plaques are building up in coronary arteries, though the exact risk is still a matter of debate.

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