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Krugman: Controlling Health Costs, Expanding Access Aren't Opposing Alternatives

nytimes.com | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Paul Krugman, Expanding Health Access, Health Care Costs, Krugman Health Care, Politics News

The talking heads on cable TV panned President Obama's Wednesday press conference. You see, he didn't offer a lot of folksy anecdotes. Shame on the...

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Congress Is Behaving as if the Health Care System Isn't in Tatters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, Congressional Democrats, Small Business, Kathleen Sebelius, Congressional Republicans, Public Option, Bobby Jindal, Jim Demint, Health Care Costs, President Obama, David Gregory, Health Care Quality, Moderate Democrats, Health Insurance, Democrats, Single Payer, Congressional Budget Office, Obama Socialism, Uninsured, National Coalition on Health Care, Health Insurance Companies, Bill Kristol, Michael Steele, Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Universal Health Care, ABC News, Health Care, Obama Poll, Republicans, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

We are either going to get no health care reform or watered-down health care legislation that acts as a bandage, helping some people but ignoring the larger problem creating the pain.

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Governors Balk Over Emerging Health Bill Because Of Cost

New York Times | KEVIN SACK and ROBERT PEAR | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care Bill, Governors, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Politics News

The nation's governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern Sunday about the shape of the health care bill emerging from Congress, ...

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Sam Stein

GOP Scoffed At CBO Score For Iraq That Was Twice The Cost Of Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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Testimony from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf that preliminary versions of health care legislation lack effective cost-contain...

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Health Care Crisis: Costs Take Enormous Toll On Small Businesses

wsj.com | SIMONA COVEL | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Health Care Reform, Health Care Small Business, Health Care, Health Care Costs, National Federation of Independent Businesses, Business News

For entrepreneurs trying to start or run a business, the obstacles are huge. But few loom as large as one: health care. For years, small businesses...

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While Lobbyists Lament Rationing, Some Patients Want It

Francine Hardaway | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Rationing, Canadian Healthcare, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Elderly Americans, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

The rant about rationing is designed to make consumers feel that no one will be able to get in to see a doctor under a public plan and make efforts at real health care reform fail.

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AmeriGas To Employees: Get Checkups Or Lose Your Insurance

wsj.com | ANNA WILDE MATHEWS | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business Health Care, Health Care Reform, Preventitive Care, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Amerigas Propane, Business News

Last year, AmeriGas Propane Inc. gave its employees an ultimatum: get their medical checkups, or lose their health insurance. The nationwide propan...

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Study: Americans Struggle To Pay For Health Care, With 40 Percent Delaying Treatments Or Services

Reuters | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Center for Healthcare Improvement, Paying for Health Care, Struggle to Pay for Health Care, Delaying Treatment, Health Care Costs, Politics News

WASHINGTON - Americans are struggling to pay for healthcare in the ongoing economic recession, with a quarter saying they have had trouble in the past...

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Who Is the Most Important Stakeholder in Health Care?

Roni Zeiger | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Treatment, Quality of Care, Participatory Medicine, Health, Peter Orszag, Patients, Physicians, Barack Obama, Doctors, Evidence-Based Decision Making, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Evidence-Based Medicine, Personal Health, Living News
Roni Zeiger

Consumers need to be part of the health care conversation and doctors and patients alike need better access to basic data about what works and what doesn't.

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The Rally to Reform Health Care and Its Costs

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Atul Gawande, Health Care Costs, Health Care Rally, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

Research suggests that cost and quality are inversely proportional. Are we surprised?

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When Healthcare Solutions Become Problems

John Kenagy | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care Costs, Gewande, Politics News
John Kenagy

The transformation of healthcare starts and ends with the patient. We can't think our way to a new way of acting; we must act our way to a new way of thinking.

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Recession Pushing Cost of Drugs Out of Reach

nytimes.com | KEVIN SACK | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drugs, Healt Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Pharmacies, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Business News

OCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- A year or so ago, when customers buttonholed the pharmacists at Almand's Drug Store here the questions were invariably about dosin...

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Health Care Costs: Eroding Your Wages

The Atlantic Business Channel | By Derek Thompson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Wage Growth, Health Care Costs, Income Inequality, Wages, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

This amazing graph bouncing around the web is the most striking example of why health care reform isn't just about reforming care. It's about reformin...

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Is the Insurance Industry Getting Behind Comparative Effectiveness Research?

Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Big Pharma, President Obama, Research, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Labor Unions, Health Care, Home News
Arlene Holt Baker

This week many watched as the president joined with the largest associations of insurers and doctors to acknowledge the excessive costs of health care...

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Obama, Business Leaders Discuss Health Care Costs

AP | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hearing from corporate leaders about programs they are using to trim health care costs. The president sa...

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Could Heath Care Reform's Success Bring Failure Again?

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Health Care Costs, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sheri and Allan Rivlin

Many veteran Washington watchers are starting to assume that there will be some health care reform this year, but the real question is whether it will include a government option.

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America's Self-Defeating Attitude on Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Sahil Kapur

The current system encourages exclusion of those who need medical care the most, and only government has the power to restructure these incentives.

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy

Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Health Care, Health Care Coverage, Health Care Costs, Private Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, National Health Insurance, Health Care Proposal, Medicaid, Medicare, Politics News
Dr. Behzad Mohit

Anxiety and uncertainty about our health care will be once and for all gone. Even pharmaceutical companies will cut billions in costs because they'll have no need to advertise, lobby, or provide gifts.

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Too Much Medicine: A Doctor's Guide to Better and More Affordable Health Care

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living

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Dr. Dennis Gottfried

American health care is failing, suffering with problems that jeopardize our well-being and that worsen each day. Science, tempered by compassion, once controlled medical decisions--but no longer.

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Health Care Overhaul May Cost About $1.5 Trillion

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Overhaul, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade, health experts say. That's more ...

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Is the Octuplets' Mother Crazy, Addicted, or Anti-social?

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Nadya Suleman, Disability, Nadya Suleman Today Show, Kaiser Permanente, Ann Curry, Health Care Costs, Mortality, Health Care, Living News
Stanton Peele

While doctors, hospital resources, and social services are and will be devoted to the Suleman clan, others will be forced to do without. This is our modern American reality.

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Fiscal Follies

Robert Kuttner | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Costs, Economy, Social Security, Health, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Healthcare, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

No reform is possible if we keep the present health system -- America now spends 16 percent of our GDP on health, and the number of uninsured and under insured rises every year, in tandem with the costs.

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Do You Have the Right to Choose Your Health Care?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Integrative Medicine, Health Insurance, Health Freedom, Health Care, Healthcare, Health, Money, Health Care Costs, Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses, Healthcare Costs, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

When we talk about prevention, don't forget that many factors impact health -- and we can't address them all one-by-one as individuals. We need collective action on public policy.

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On Healthcare Reform Stimulating the Economy: The Massachusetts Example

Maggie Mahar | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nurses, Health Care Costs, Jonathan Gruber, Drugs, Medical Errors, Health Insurance, Unncessary, Legislation, SCHIP Program, Primary Care, Health, Structural Reform, Over-Priced, Devices, Universal Health Care, Health Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Maggie Mahar

Too many proposals for healthcare reform focus solely on universal access and run the risk of sending good money after bad. The question we need to ask is: "Access to what"?

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Accept No Substitutes (Part 3 of 3)

Deane Waldman | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare System, Healthcare Crisis, Healthcare Reform, Health Care Costs, Systems Thinking, Healthcare, Politics News
Deane Waldman

If the government Plan for Healthcare describes only the effects in healthcare and fails to consider other, outside consequences, reject it. Accept no substitutes.

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