U.S. Health Care -- Challenges and Solutions
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Identify challenges and solutions to reliable availability of health care for citizens of the United States.
Problem Identification -- Initial Focus:
1. Bottlenecks in supply
2. Unmet demand
Solution Identification -- Initial Focus
Improve Elasticity of supply factors
Identify opportunities to achieve rapid order of magnitude improvements while minimizing required changes to existing societal and governmental structures.
Problem Identification -- Initial Focus:
1. Bottlenecks in supply
2. Unmet demand
Solution Identification -- Initial Focus
Improve Elasticity of supply factors
Identify opportunities to achieve rapid order of magnitude improvements while minimizing required changes to existing societal and governmental structures.
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Nearly 60 Million Went Without Health Coverage In Recent Year - Shots - Health News Blog : NPRNearly 60 Million Went Without Health Coverage In Recent Year By Scott Hensley How many people in this country are without insurance? About 60 million during all or part of a recent year, according to an estimate just out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From ...
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith OlbermannKeith Olbermann's special comment on the health care legislation pending in the senate...
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Unemployed Face End of Subsidy for Cobra Health Insurance - NYTimes.comStrains Felt in Health Coverage for Jobless While lawmakers in Washington continue to debate how to make health care affordable for more Americans, thousands of unemployed New Yorkers like Rhonda R. Baumser are suddenly struggling to hang onto their health coverage. Ms. Baumser, a lifelong ...
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Health Care Reform and Social JusticeHealth Care Reform and Social Justice This is a transcript of a talk by Bruce Bodaken, CEO of Blue Shield of California. Bodaken was a distinguished visiting scholar at the Center Nov. 5 and 6, 2009. PowerPoint slides from the talk More Information on Health Care Ethics I want to ...
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Children on Medicaid Found More Likely to Get Antipsychotics - NYTimes.comPoor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are ...
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7House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill with Amendment Backed by Anti-Abortion LawmakersHow does a plan that allows only those whom the big insurance companies won't insure to access the public option create competition? Unless the public option is open to everyone, only those who are refused by private insurance - the most expensive to cover - will be covered by the public plan, ...Geoffrey Ames added 5 weeks ago
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7Premature Births Are Behind Infant Mortality Rates in U.S., Report Says - NYTimes.comThe best health care money can buy? Well, maybe not...Geoffrey Ames added 6 weeks ago
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7Abortion Language Creates Snag For Health Bill : NPRWhen does society have the right to impose the morality of the few on the lives (and bodies) of the many? How do personal ethics relate to group morality? How do we apply situational ethics with regard to women's rights and the rights of the unborn? Should a woman be forced to give birth to the ...Geoffrey Ames added 6 weeks ago
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7Public Baffled By Health Care Arguments : NPRWith all the lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations, from both sides, on top of the huge and complex proposed legislation, is it any wonder that Joe Mainstreet is confused? Unfortunately, most of the loudest voices seem to be neither well-informed nor very representative of the majority.Geoffrey Ames added 3 months ago
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7Is Grassley Abandoning Bipartisan Health Bill? : NPRCompare and contrast with mock news from 'The Onion': http://www.theonion.com/content/news/congress_deadlocked_over_how_toGeoffrey Ames added 3 months ago
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