U.S. Health Care -- Challenges and Solutions
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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 CountdownKeith 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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OpEdNews - Kevin Gosztola: Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better WayNovember 23, 2009 at 10:09:23 Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better Way By Kevin Gosztola ( about the author ) Page 1 of 4 page(s) For OpEdNews: Kevin Gosztola - Writer To the extent that politicians in Washington, D.C. have not attempted reform of ...
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Thrust and Parry on the Senate Floor - NYTimes.comSimple as it might sound, the most fearsome tactic available to any senator is the ability to burn time, to drag out the debate in ways that can grind legislative business to a halt and leave the Senate caught in an interminable purgatory.
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The Breaking Point - Closing of Dialysis Unit Hits Illegal Immigrants Hard - Series - NYTimes.comHospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants ATLANTA — Each had crossed the border years before, smuggled across the desert by a coyote, never imagining the journey would lead to a drab and dusty clinic on the ninth floor of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Some knew before the ...
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Democrats Clinch Health Debate Vote - NYTimes.comDemocrats Clinch Health Debate Vote WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said they had clinched the votes needed on Saturday to propel major health care legislation to the floor for weeks of full debate, as the majority party’s two last holdouts said that they would not block consideration of Preside...
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Playing the Health Care Lottery - Well Blog - NYTimes.comPlaying the Health Care Lottery In the short story “The Lottery,” the author Shirley Jackson describes a small farming community in 1940s America, as picturesque a scene as anything you’d find in Norman Rockwell. It’s “Lottery Day,” and families gather in the June sun, the adults chatting ...
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