Health Care
Monday, August 27, 2007Can't Find a Family Physician?Filed As: Health CareEvery so often I run across articles lamenting a shortage of general practitioners or family physicians. Sometimes the articles will muse about the need for another government program. Or maybe we need fewer programs and less third-party payment and management of our health care. I'm ... more »»
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Monday, August 27, 2007Social Networking, Meet Health CareFiled As: Health CareTechnological and business advances ranging from prescription drugs to medical devices to treatment protocols can improve the status of our health care. They are also letting consumers take a more active role in shaping their own response to chronic disease. Patients Like Me, like Facebook or ... more »»
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Monday, August 27, 2007Should We Be Shaming Obese Children More?Filed As: Health CareIn this Onion News Network parody "news" clip (warning: with some mildly-coarse language), fake pundits debate whether or not ... more »»
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Friday, August 24, 2007Small Business For Socialism?"Tax Me Before I Fail To Provide Health Insurance, Again" Filed As: Health CareAnother very strange more »»
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Friday, August 24, 2007High Deductible Health Plan Cuts Emergency Department UseFiled As: Health CareGovernors, commissions, and legislatures intent on building health care regulatory empires to force larger and larger segments of the U.S. population into depending on government for health care tend to view personal ownership of health insurance as A Bad Thing. This goes double for high-deductible ... more »»
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Friday, August 24, 2007Recomended Reading for Putative Health ReformersFiled As: Health CareWhile state health care reform commissions labor mightly to put into practice the unworkable health plans cooked up by various foundations dedicated to having the U.S. health system imitate the Canadian, British, and European failures, the Council for Affordable Health Insurance has issued more »»
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Friday, August 24, 2007Go You Chicken Fat GoFiled As: Health CareIt's Friday, so it's time for a little silliness. If you think that government nagging about public health is relatively recent, think again. In the early 1960s, the Kennedy Administration got Meredith Wilson (he of "Music Man" fame) to record a song for use in public schools ... more »»
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Thursday, August 23, 2007Paying for DoctorsFiled As: Health CareEconomic literacy is important. It is even more important when you cover one of the most controversial issues for the state's leading newspaper. Winthrop Quigley covers health care for the Albuquerque Journal and while I don't have a major problem ... more »»
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Thursday, August 23, 2007Crisis of Convenience: You Can't Keep a Busy Bureaucrat DownRidiculous responses to the rise of retail clinics Filed As: Health CareThe New York Times carries a front-page feature today on the explosion of convenient clinics in America’s largest city. The Times counts 600 clinics nationwide, and Duane Reade alone plans to roll out 60 more in New York ... more »»
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Thursday, August 23, 2007SCHIP Reform Goes FirstFiled As: Health CareMixing reauthorization and expansion of SCHIP is confusing the public, and we are at risk that major policy decisions about the future of our health sector could be made without a full debate. I've offered some suggestions for reforming SCHIP for the journal more »»
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