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Growing Momentum for Public Option

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking News, Public Health Insurance, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Senate Finance Committee, Public Option, Health Insurance Reform, No Public Option, Public Option Senate Finance Committee, Politics News
Robert Creamer

With just 2 votes short of passage Tuesday, the odds are now very high that some form of public health insurance option will be included on the final reform bill.

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If You Like Medical Bills, You'll Love These

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Npr, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Care Reform, New England Journal of Medicine, Max Baucus, Universal Health Care, Campaign for America's Future, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Salomeh Keyhani, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Medical insurance paperwork is universally recognized and universally loathed. It could serve as a potent symbol of everything wrong with America's dysfunctional, for-profit health insurance system.

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Why Docs Like the Public Option

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Doctors, Physicians, Public Option, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

A poll found that physicians overwhelmingly support a public option approach to health reform. That is, they want to see a mixed public-private approach.

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Replacing the Shouts of Recess with the Deliberations of Research

James S. Marks | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Prevention, Chronic Disease, Health, Health Care Reform, Diabetes, Health Care, Congressional Budget Office, Health Affairs, Politics News
James S. Marks

The CBO is a valuable resource for elected officials for measuring the economic value of legislation. But it doesn't automatically score what we as Americans value, especially our health.

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What if Benjamin Franklin Ran the Congressional Budget Office?

James S. Marks | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Congressional Budget Office, Prevention, Health Care, Health, Politics News
James S. Marks

We are measuring each health reform and long term outcomes by a monolithic yardstick -- 10-year CBO scoring -- without ever questioning whether the yardstick measures what really matters to us as a people.

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Cash for Fatties

Wendy Wanderman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, Red States, Blue States, Trust for America's Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Overweight, Living News
Wendy Wanderman

According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Top 5 states that have the highest percentage of overweight people are all Republican red states.

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How Prepared is Your State for Bioterror and Health Emergencies?

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Emergency Preparedness, Trust for America's Health, Ready or Not, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health, Bioterrorism, Living News
Jeffrey Levi

People often say 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were 'wake up calls' to the country. But in the field of public health, we think of them more like snooze alarms.

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