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Is Managed Care Pushing America's Deadly Opiate Addiction?

Susana Duncan, M.D. | Posted 01.08.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Prescription Drug Addiction, Healthy Living Health News, Opioids, Prescription Painkillers, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Addiction and Recovery, Prescription Drugs, Chronic Pain, Chronic Pain Medical Care, Managed Care, Health Care, Prescription Drug Abuse, Healthy Living News
Susana Duncan, M.D.

As I reflect on why this wave of opiate addiction is so rapidly gaining hold in America, I realize that the answer lies in the new realities of how doctors must practice to earn their livelihood.

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There Is No 'I' in 'Safety Net'

Mary Ann Christopher | Posted 11.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Long-Term Care, Medicaid, Managed Care, Caregiving, At-Home Care, Health Care Plan, Managed Health Care, Long-Term Health Care Plan, Long-Term Health Care, In-Home Care, Social Workers, Home Health Care, Social Worker, Home Healthcare, Health Care Delivery System, Caregivers, Healthy Living News
Mary Ann Christopher

At the center of Mrs. Barrow's team is Felicia herself; her needs, her feedback, and her participation are essential. Then, working collaboratively and across all facets of her daily life, she is supported by a nurse-led team of health professionals.

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"Obamacare" Hater Rick Scott, Now Florida's Governor, Is Doing Exactly What He Falsely Claimed Federal Reform Would Do

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.11.2011 | Politics
Read More: Florida, Rick Scott, Unitedhealth, Hmos, Obamacare, Health Care, Managed Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Politics News
Wendell Potter

So much for health care choice and competition vanishing with "Obamacare". It seems as if one of the leaders of the anti-reform crowd, Rick Scott, wasn't a true believer in the value of choice and competition after all.

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Dear Mr. President, I Wish I Had Known...

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.12.2011 | Business
Read More: Janny-Scott, Clinton Health Care Plan, Ann Dunham, A-Singular-Woman, Health Care Reform, Stanley Ann Dunham, Cigna, Hmos, Health Care, Barack Obama, Managed Care, Business News
Wendell Potter

Like many others, I've heard President Obama talk about his mother's insurance problems during her final months in 1995. But I didn't realize until now that the company she was pleading with was CIGNA, the one I used to work for.

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CA Nurses Strike Against Billion-Dollar Felon, HCA

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Strike, FL Governor-Elect Rick Scott, LA Federation of Labor, Felon, Hca, Hospital Corporation of America, Sicko, Fraud, West Hills Hospital, CA Governor-Elect Jerry Brown, CA State Senator Fran Pavley, CA State Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, Registered Nurses, Mustang Marketing, Michael Moore, Managed Care, Riverside Community Hospital, Health Care, Union, Seiu, Seiu121rn, Los Angeles News
Linda Milazzo

Registered Nurse Estella Chavez (photo by Linda Milazzo) With support from California Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield and California State Senator Fran...

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My Fall Down the Diagnostic Rabbit Hole

Robyn Okrant | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lupus, Health Care, Managed Care, Misdiagnosis, Healthy Living News
Robyn Okrant

On Thanksgiving morning this year, I had an eye opening moment. After breakfast, I popped open the Thursday compartment of my obscenely large day-a-we...

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Framing the Health Care Reform Debate: Who Do You Hate? Or, Who Do You Hate More?

Bryant Welch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Obama's Health Plan, Managed Care, Politics News
Bryant Welch

Obama's grassroots organizing and populist support, the skills that got him elected, are the country's only real hope for meaningful health care reform.

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Addicted to Health Care

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bassett Hospital, Helen Hunt, As Good as It Gets, Cleveland Clinic, Health in the United States, David Brooks, Health Care Reform, Managed Care, Asthmatic Child, National Health Care, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Addiction, Hitting Bottom, Politics News
Stanton Peele

Americans are addicted to health care. They demand more and more of it, at any cost, whatever the consequences.

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At Least We All Now Know What the Health Care Reform Debate Is About

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Douglas Elmendorf, Harry Reid, Health Care Rationing, Congressional Budget Office, Nancy Pelosi, Managed Care, Senate Budget Committee, Obama Administration, Politics News
Stanton Peele

The following five developments made clear that America is not prepared for what it must do in regard to health care reform.

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