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Preventable Deaths

The Health Burden of Being American

D. Brad Wright | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Read More: Gun Control, Drugs, Car Accidents, Life Expectancy, Preventable Deaths, Health Care Reform, Health Coverage, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

Until we decide to shift our focus more in the direction of public health activities, or promote policies of complete and total individual responsibility, we will continue to pour ever-increasing gobs of money down the health care drain, and all of us will have to pay the plumber.

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Uninsured People Do Die in Their Homes

Ben Townsend | Posted 12.12.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Romney Emergency Room, Preventable Deaths, Romeny Obamacare, Obamacare, Romney Health Care, Mitt Romney Health Insurance, Detroit News
Ben Townsend

Now, I'm an Obama supporter. And I don't think very much of Romney's health care proposals. But I would like to comment on his assertion that uninsured people don't die in their homes. Because I happen to know a person who did.

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U.S. Still Bad At Preventing Deaths, Despite High Health Care Costs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.30.2012 | Business
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Despite spending more on health care than other developed countries, the United States is doing a worse of job of keeping its residents from dying. ...

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Is This a Turning Point in Saving the Lives of Children?

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 08.13.2012 | Impact
Read More: Global Health, Global Child Health, Preventable Deaths, Preventable Deaths Children, Global Motherhood, Child Health, Development Child Health, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

On June 14 and 15, the governments of the U.S., Ethiopia and India, in coordination with UNICEF, will convene leaders from government, international agencies, civil society, the faith community, and academia to chart out "the end of preventable child deaths."

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Who Is Don Berwick and Why Do the Republicans Want to Kill His Nomination?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Don Berwick, Media Matters, President Obama, Preventable-Deaths, Medical Errors, National Health Service, Medicare, Medicaid, politico.com, Maggie Mahar, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

One of the major accusations against Obama's nominee to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald Berwick, is that he "loves" Britain's National Health Service. Ergo, he loves socialism, ergo he is a Marxist.

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A Different Kind of Water Torture

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Better World Campaign, Bbc, Charity, Health, Water, The Giving Life, Cambodia, Corporate Giving, International, Foundations, The Fight for Clean Water, Preventable Deaths, Clean Water, Politics News
John Sauer

Each day in developing countries more children die unnecessarily from water-related diseases than there are people in my hometown on Long Island, NY.

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