Curing Sicko
In his movie Sicko, Michael Moore dramatized the dysfunctions in our healthcare system. What it will take to cure Sicko? The first step, part of my ...
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"Expanding Access to Care": The Health Insurance Industry's Magic at Work
John Geyman | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
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As the costs of health care surge ever higher, the financial barrier to care has clearly become the biggest impediment of all.
Resist The Blame Game or Nothing Will Improve
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home
When we are angry (which is often), we need to release our tension. Typically, we do so by blaming someone. This may be cathartic (usually it isn't) b...
Scum of the earth - NOT!
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home
We have had this talk before but apparently lots of you missed class that day. If you review the post "The Future of Healthcare" as well as others pri...
Morphine for Your Headache?
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Home
You go to a doctor complaining of headaches. She gives you morphine and sends you home pain-free (and high). Is she practicing good medicine? Ridicul...
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?
Andrew L. Yarrow | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business
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How did two proud symbols of American greatness from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries become emblematic of deep social and economic problems and the nation's slide from global pre-eminence?
Scum of the Earth, Continued
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
Two prior posts - "Who gains from billing?" and "Insurance companies = "scum of the earth?" - have finally gotten people to speak up. Many just vented...
Mother's Day Gift We Can All Be Thankful For
Rep. Hilda L. Solis | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics
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This Mother's Day, we should all stop and think about those mothers who won't get their wish and recommit ourselves to achieving health equity.
In Health Care, Efficiency Kills
Deane Waldman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
What do you think when you hear the word efficiency? Someone who is efficient uses time, money and resources wisely. He or she gets the job done with...
Study: Boomers to Flood Medical System
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
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WASHINGTON — Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even disco...
Cancer Fight Gets Nuclear, Despite Huge Price Tag
New York Times | Andrew Pollack | Posted 12.26.2007 | Business
There is a new nuclear arms race under way -- in hospitals. Medical centers are rushing to turn nuclear particle accelerators, formerly used only for...
The Healthcare Crisis Gets Personal
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
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Every parent, no matter who they are and where they live, can easily have the kind of trauma over the health of a child that we had. And every parent should have the medical care that we got. It's just wrong if they don't.
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