Health Care System

Just What the Patient Ordered

Howard A. Zucker, MD | Posted 03.30.2012

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Howard A. Zucker, MD

Was Marcus Welby better able to treat the entire patient than Dr. House? It is time for America to create an oral history of the medical profession. These gray-haired physicians may illuminate how we might meld the best of the past and the promise of the future of medicine.

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Smarter Healthcare: Let's Pay Doctors to Keep People Healthy

Dr. Paul Grundy | Posted 04.22.2012

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Dr. Paul Grundy

As a medical doctor, I'm concerned about many aspects of the changes taking place in heath care.

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A Window of Hope for Fixing Medicare

Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD | Posted 03.18.2012

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Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD

Seeing the patient first as a person and focusing on their daily functioning in the context of existing health conditions are the keys to making Medicare more cost effective, humane and sustainable.

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The Campaign Against the Campaign Against Health

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.10.2011

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Rupert Russell

This week a few brave politicians stood up to protest the political attacks aimed squarely at women's health.

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What Causes Doctors To Burnout?

CP | Sheryl Ubelacker, Health Reporter, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.02.2011

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TORONTO - Every two weeks for most of the year, Dr. Miriam Salamon meets with a group of other Ottawa family physicians to talk about their emotional ...

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The Impossible Dream: Health Insurers Will Improve the Health Care System

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 07.19.2011

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Stephen M. Davidson

Society's interest is clear and so is the path to get there. How bad do the problems need to get before we finally face the reality that investor-owned insurers do not want to be part of the solution?

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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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Talking Health Care: LIVE From The White House (VIDEO)

AOL Health | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since the health care law passed, questions have swirled about it. Most importantly, Americans are concerned about how it will affect them. Will the...

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4 Human Beliefs That Enable Harmful Health Policies

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alison Rose Levy

Why do we praise healthy food, but never get around to calling our Congressman to let him know our wishes for the Food Safety bill?

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Why We Need to Humanize the Public Health System

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Katz, M.D.

Public health progress is forestalled by a monumental fiction: there is no "public." There's just you, and me, and everyone else.

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How Today's Medical Apartheid Is Sinking The Health Care System

Larry Malerba, D.O. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Larry Malerba, D.O.

Medical apartheid exists on a number of other levels, first and foremost at the level of the haves and have-nots, and also between conventional and alternative forms of medical treatment.

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Routine Maintenance: Health Care's Contract With America

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2011

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Francine Hardaway

An under-exercised and overfed population has lost the will and the ability to care for itself and goes trotting off to the specialist to treat the problems caused by themselves.

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U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Historic Investment in Public Health

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Levi

This week, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $1.27 billion for prevention and public health. This investment could shift our current health care system from one that is reactive to one that is proactive.

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Skipped Heart Tests at Harlem Hospital Flag a Stressed Medical System

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Elaine Schattner

The skipped heart tests mark the failing of our overburdened, financially-strapped health care system. I'm doubtful that this sort of failure is limited to one department at one Harlem hospital.

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From Fear to Hope in Global Health

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Orin Levine

Global health feels different to me these days. It feels like there's been a change recently in the emphasis in global health from "find the SARS ...

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Health Care Experiences and Observations from around the World

Raúl de Molina | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raúl de Molina

In this country if you go to the emergency room, you may wait hours, if not a day or two to see an actual doctor. Why? Because these rooms are full of patients who don't have insurance.

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A Flawed Step Forward on Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health care debate. To say the process hasn't been pretty would be one of the biggest Washington understatements in years.

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Let's Get Theological on Health Care and Warfare

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

Anyone care to provide a theological foundation for the Republican policy preferences for the rich and for war? I would really like to see it.

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Health Care and Bipartisanship in the Balance

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

President Obama, this is your moment for political courage, vision, leadership, and faith. We urge you to take heart and move meaningful health care reform forward.

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Backbone, Mind, and Heart

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Hart

Present day America is like a sick patient. We pray that the president will lead us in healing the country's backbone, its mind, and its heart.

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The Best We Can Do

Lance Simmens | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lance Simmens

Why is it that it is easier to take the country into war without justification than it is to ensure that every American is entitled to health care?

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I'm the Poster Child for Public Healthcare

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lara M. Gardner

I sincerely hope our legislators can get their act together and create a health plan that provides health care for every American so all of us can experience true and complete care, as I did.

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Health Care Reform Through an M&A Lens

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ron Ashkenas

If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care "division" would represent a major acquisition. Companies don't add units without combining, consolidating, streamlining, and reducing.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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Kristof: Existing Health Care System Kills More Than An Army Of "Death Panels" Would

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 05.25.2011

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Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if sh...

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