American Health Care

Health Care: A Casualty of Class Warfare

John Geyman | Posted 12.10.2011

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John Geyman

As the recession rolls on without signs of relief on the horizon, a growing army of millions of Americans is finding it impossible to gain access to necessary health care that is affordable.

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Ask Me About My Gall Bladder

Meredith Lopez | Posted 05.30.2011

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Meredith Lopez

I have to say, spending nearly a week in the hospital and having surgery was way more fun than any stupid plans I may have had, like St. Patrick's Day parties and Purim carnivals.

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4 Percent of Us Consume 50 Percent of All Health Care

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Lewis

Our humanity, if not our common sense, tells us that something is wrong when 4 percent of the world's population consumes half of the world's health care.

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Why Are Hospitals The Worst Place To Be When You Are Sick?

Judith Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judith Johnson

I can only hope that healthcare reform will eliminate the reasons why nurses and other healthcare workers repeatedly giggle dismissively as they say that hospitals are the worst place to be if you are sick, that they are hotbeds for infection.

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Will Global Payments Improve The Health Care System?

Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D.

While health care providers and systems are not primarily driven by money, they are just as susceptible to responding to dollar incentives as the rest of the human ecosystem.

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America's Health Care Addiction

Craig Bowron | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Bowron

How does a country with perhaps the most innovative health care system in the world produce average health care outcomes? It's simple: much of the innovation hasn't delivered.

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How American Health Care Killed My Father

The Atlantic (September 2009) | David Goldhill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost two years ago, my father was killed by a hospital-borne infection in the intensive-care unit of a well-regarded nonprofit hospital in New York ...

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Sam Stein

PhRMA CEO Urges GOP To Work With Obama On Health Care, But Won't Compromise Himself

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A key industry official in the health care debate praised the Obama administration on Tuesday for taking an "us"-oriented approach when it came to rev...

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