Health Costs

President Obama Can Deliver a Powerful Message About Health Care, Strong Middle Class in State of the Union

Ethan Rome | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Health Costs, Consumer Protections, Middle Class, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Long-Term Care, Implementation, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Reform, Health Care, State of the Union, Politics News
Ethan Rome

We must stand strong to fight the GOP's hyper-partisan attacks on the health care programs that are making America healthier and moving our great country closer to achieving its promise.

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24 Seconds to Roadkill

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Energy, Walking, National Security, Environment, Public Health, Pedestrian Safety, Health Costs, Pedestrians, Politics News
Matthew Edlund, M.D.

The United States remains intensely car friendly -- and pedestrian hostile. And that says a lot about our public safety, health, future obesity epidemic and how seriously we believe in global climate change.

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Can a "Health" System Kill a Country?

Chris Norwood | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Community Diabetes Prevention, Human Commodities, Unnecessary Illness, Mass Disability, David Brooks, Medical Industrial Complex, Health Costs, Preventative Healthcare, US Life Expectancy, Health Insurance, Diabetes Education, New York News
Chris Norwood

The nation could achieve marked degrees of improved health and jolt employment in its collapsed communities by having local community groups train local residents as health educators.

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A Tale of Two Rural Health Facilities

Hrishikesh Srinagesh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Health Costs, Medical Care, Health Care, Dehydration, World News
Hrishikesh Srinagesh

Two experiences which led to short hospitalizations showed me how medicine can be practiced so differently in the U.S. and India.

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Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Costs, Paul Hawken, Farm Bill, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Peak Oil, Monopolies, Cooking for Solutions, Environmental Costs, Food Prices, Justice Department, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society, at large.

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The Wellpoint Effect

John McDonough | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Wellpoint, Politics News
John McDonough

As in Massachusetts, if national health reform happens, we will witness the launch of a long term, serious national conversation about rising health care costs and what to do about them. There's still no magic bullet.

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The Obesity Problem: How Did We Become So Fat?

Joshua Rosenthal | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health-Costs, Nutrition School, Obesity, Weight Loss, How to Lose Weight, Healthy Living News
Joshua Rosenthal

Healthy food and lifestyle choices are the foundations of weight loss. No pill or fad diet is going to cure our country's obesity problem.

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When Federal Employees Decide Your Family's Medical Treatment

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Medical Council, David Axelrod, Hillary Clinton, Health Costs, Cancer, Health Care, Barack Obama, Health Research, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

Medical costs must come down. But as we've learned with business bailouts, better to do it right early on, to anticipate abuse, than to be digging our way out of a mess for years to come.

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Something Other Than The Financial Crisis: Children Are "Orphans of Medicine."

Deane Waldman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pediatric Cancer Research, Health Costs, Health Care, Biomedical Research, Pediatrics, Healthy Living News
Deane Waldman

Would you like to think about something, anything, other than the financial crisis or the election? I know I would. Let's talk about the real future ...

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Ready or Not, Big Change is Coming: The Impending Death Of Private Health Insurance

John Geyman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Costs, Do Not Resuscitate, John Geyman, Pnhp, Healthy Living News
John Geyman

Most of us have by now heard many indictments of private health insurance. What's new and may be surprising to many people is this: despite its size and political power, it is a dying industry.

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