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Point 5: A Double Mandate For Health Works For Europe

George Halvorson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: European Healthcare, Personal Health, George Halvorson, Health Care Reform, Healhcare Legislation, Health Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News
George Halvorson

How do countries who use private health plans achieve universal coverage? They use a "double mandate: Everyone must buy. Everyone must sell.

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Point 4: Americans Are Obese And Inert -- Resulting In Huge Health Care Costs

George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Personal Health, Universal Healthcare, Weight, Kaiser Permanente, Obesity, Obama Health Care, Childhood Obesity, Overweight, Weight Control, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Alzheimer's, Causes of Dementia, Diabetes, Health Care, George Halvorson, Living News
George Halvorson

We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.

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Point 3: We Need an Orbitz for Health

George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Coverage, Health Care Exchanges, Health Care Costs, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Kaiser Permanente, Halvorson, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Living News
George Halvorson

Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.

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HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Frontline, World Health Organization, John Podesta, American Medical Association, Frank Luntz, Kaiser Permanente, Barack Obama, Charlie Rose, Health-Maintenance-Organizations, US News & World Report, Politics News
Philip Lee Miller

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

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Health and the Shortage of Flu Vaccine

Robert Slayton | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Catch-22, Flu Clinics, Southern California, New Hampshire, Swine Flu, Flu, Seasonal Flu, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Vaccines, Living News
Robert Slayton

There's a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine, but nobody seems to be taking notice. The companies are busy cranking out swine flu vaccine.

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Three Tips for Growing Younger with Age

Carole Carson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthful Aging, Aging, Nih, Dr Dean Ornish, Age, National Senior Games, Kaiser Permanente, Weight, Diet, Dr. Henry Lodge, Exercise and Brain Power, Kaiser Permanente Medical Foundation, Younger Next Year, Peggy Davidson, National Institute of Health, Exercise, Dr. Dean Ornish, Weight Loss, Huntsman World Senior Games, Dara Torres, Boston Marathon, Bob Borglund, Living News
Carole Carson

If you are willing to exercise regularly and eat on the slim side, even though the clock is ticking away, you can perform well both physically and mentally into your 90s.

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Release 0.9: Washing Health Care Clean

Esther Dyson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Cleveland Clinic, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Mayo Clinic, Politics News
Esther Dyson

Just imagine that we paid for housecleaning the way we pay for health care -- by load of laundry, for example. And that homeowners weren't generally responsible for the costs. It would change everything.

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Greening Hollywood: A Future To Go

Paige Donner | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Mindset, Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Design, Electric Vehicles, Future to Go, U.S. Air Force, California Air Resources Board, Mta, Kaiser Permanente, Andy Karsner, David Wilkie, Pasadena Art Center College of Design, Lightcraft Technologies, Kill Spencer, Amory Lovins, Greening Hollywood, Plug-in Vehicle, Venrock, Green News
Paige Donner

Pasadena's Art Center College of Design believes that design can bridge eco-friendly products, services and technologies with the public's desire to l...

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Nadya Suleman Scared The Hospital May Keep Her Babies

AP | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Kaiser Permanente, Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Dr Phil, Los Angeles-California, Media News

LOS ANGELES — Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw says she may have ...

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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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Nadya Suleman, Octuplets' Mom, Discharged From Hospital And Does "Today"

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Today Show, California Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Nadya Suleman Today Show, Octuplet Mom Today Show, Kaiser Permanente, Octuplets, Living News

WHITTIER, Calif. — The veil of secrecy octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman shrouded herself in for more than a week was lifted Thursday with the rel...

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Leading Healthcare Change: No Room for Politics as Usual

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Child Mortality, Women, Women Mortality Rate, Pregnancy, Health Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Tom Daschle Health Care, Barack Obama, Women's Healthcare, Insurance, Women's Health, Pregnant Women, Obama's Cabinet, Tom Daschle, Secretary of Energy, Medicaid, Medicare, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Healthcare, Infant Mortality, Sick Children, Politics News
Dr. Peter Klatsky

We are facing incredibly difficult decisions, but policies implemented today will help us to live healthier, longer lives, while also saving billions of dollars.

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