This Week: Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis—and the People Who Pay the Price”
Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales – New York Times
Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales – New York Times
Too funny or too sad?
Health Care and The Right’s Tactics | TPMCafe
Health Care and The Right’s Tactics TPMCafe: “Health Care and The Right’s Tactics”
An interesting piece and discussion at TPM Cafe…
CMA President-Elect Offers Look Into Canadian Health Care System
CMA President-Elect Offers Look Into Canadian Health Care System: “
CMA President-Elect Offers Look Into Canadian Health Care System
PASADENA, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ — Canadian Medical Association
(CMA) President-Elect, Dr. Brian Day, provided the Canadian perspective to
a panel discussion on single-payer health care systems at a meeting hosted
by the Los Angeles Association of Health Underwriters today.”
Aged, Frail and Denied Care by Their Insurers – New York Times
Aged, Frail and Denied Care by Their Insurers – New York Times
Business
Aged, Frail and Denied Care by Their Insurers
By CHARLES DUHIGG
Published: March 26, 2007
Many long-term-care policyholders say that years of premiums have resulted in only excuses about why insurers will not pay.
The single-payer solution | Inquirer | 03/20/2007
The single-payer solution Inquirer 03/20/2007
Posted on Tue, Mar. 20, 2007
Commentary:The single-payer solution
By Linda Hunt Beckman
Center for American Progress Papers
Progressive Prescriptions for a Healthy America
Change In Challenging Times: A Plan For Extending And Improving Health Coverage from Health Affairs 2005
People’s Weekly World – Assessing America’s health care system
People’s Weekly World – Assessing America’s health care system:
Review of: “Practicing Medicine without a License!
The Corporate Takeover of Healthcare in America “
UC Prof. Warns of Health Care System Crisis
UC Prof. Warns of Health Care System Crisis:
“While the incomes of primary care physicians are by no means meager, the discrepancy in comparison to specialists has become large enough to ‘discourage medical school graduates from choosing primary care careers,’ Bodenheimer wrote in the article. “
It’s worth looking back at Gawande’s article, “Piecework,” for more on this…
“The Best Care Anywhere” by Phillip Longman
“The Best Care Anywhere” by Phillip Longman: “Ten years ago, veterans hospitals were dangerous, dirty, and scandal-ridden. Today, they’re producing the highest quality care in the country. Their turnaround points the way toward solving America’s health-care crisis. ” (2005)