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Want to Help Fix Health Care? Start by Watching a Movie Tonight

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Read More: Obamacare, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Andrew Weil, Health Care Reform, Escape Fire Documentary, Affordable Care Act, Dr. Donald Berwick, Escape Fire, Shannon Brownlee, Health Care Americans, Private Health Insurance, Health Care Obama, Health Care Costs, Politics News
Wendell Potter

You'd think that the country that spends the most on health care -- that would be us -- would have the world's best health outcomes. Far from it. Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare describes how health care in America has turned into a business.

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H1N1 Flu Shot: A Needle in the Universal Healthcare Haystack?

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Swine Flu, H1N1 Vaccine, Healthy Kids, Emergency, nyc.gov, Medical Reserve Corps, Parenting, NYC Department of Health, The Atlantic, Shannon Brownlee, Jeanne Lenzer, Health Care Reform, Erin Brady, New York News
Susan Sawyers

If last weekend's experience getting the H1N1 shot was any indication of what we can expect, a government plan shouldn't be dismissed out of hand.

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Is This The Best Business Book Of The Year?

New York TImes | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Jack Wennberg, Overtreated, Medical Spending, Shannon Brownlee, Business News

In 1967, Jack Wennberg, a young medical researcher at Johns Hopkins, moved his family to a farmhouse in northern Vermont. Dr. Wennberg had been chose...

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