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Op-Ed Contributors - The Recession’s Racial Divide - NYTimes.com
When you’re going down, as the white middle class has been doing for several years now, it’s all too easy to imagine that it’s because someone else is climbing up over your back...If African-Americans made any collective mistake in the mid-’00s, it was to
8 Questions About Health-Care Reform - washingtonpost.com
#1 If I don't have health insurance now, how will reform affect me? #2 If I currently have health insurance, how will reform affect me? #3 How much is reform likely to cost? #4 How much does the federal government now spend on health care? #5 What will ha
Atul Gawande: surgeon, health-policy scholar, and writer | Harvard Magazine September-October 2009
it is his habit of acknowledging uncertainty that makes his writing so refreshing. “It’s the kind of ambiguity that is uncomfortable, and that other writers want to zip out of the picture, that he gravitates toward,” says his New Yorker editor, Henry Find
The Atlantic Online | September 2009 | How American Health Care Killed My Father | David Goldhill
[must read] what about us—the patients? How does a nation that might close down a business for a single illness from a suspicious hamburger tolerate the carnage inflicted by our hospitals? And not just those 100,000 deaths. In April, a Wall Street Journal
Ask Strangers for Medical Advice | Wired Science | Wired.com
a trend toward DIY health tracking.
Vermonters Have the Healthiest Habits - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
Vermont was followed by Hawaii (also the happiest state), Montana and California, with the states exhibiting the healthiest behaviors generally concentrated in the West, the Rocky Mountain states and the Northeast. The states with the unhealthiest behavio
Op-Ed Columnist - Hard to Believe! - NYTimes.com
It was strange to find in this economically stressed, rural region of Vermont, not far from the state capital of Montpelier, a good news story about health care.
Medical News: Massachusetts Should Dump Fee-For-Service, Health Panel Says - in Public Health
the state's Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System noted that healthcare costs in Massachusetts are already higher per capita than in most of the rest of the country, and are also rising faster.
The Two Trillion Dollar Solution: Saving Money by Modernizing the Health Care System
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Forum Ideas — Big Think: Healthcare Revolution
Paul Nurse on genes and dx, Regina Herzlinger on chipping, Laurie Garrett on global health
Ezra Klein - An Interview With Atul Gawande
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That brings up another point. Putting aside the difference between El Paso and McAllen, both are going to have higher costs because their people are poorer. This gets to the whole question of social determinants of health: the fact that you're sicker if you have less income, or education. Do we give that enough attention?
I think the really interesting thing is that even beyond the baseline amount of poorer health associated with lower incomes, there's this whole body of powerful literature showing that levels of inequality are even more highly correlated with poor health.
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there's something protective about rural areas, where there's less inequality, so if you take rural areas and urban areas with similar levels of poverty, the rural areas will be healthier. And people say these areas are more socially cohesive and that's what does it. But how does that make cancer rates lower?
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HealthDataRights.org
# Have the right to our own health data\n# Have the right to know the source of each health data element\n# Have the right to take possession of a complete copy of our individual health data, without delay, at minimal or no cost
Ezra Klein - Health Reform for Beginners: The Suprisingly Important, Occasionally Controversial, Dartmouth Atlas Studies
On the strength of this data, members of the administration will tell you that the important comparison of health care reform is not between America and France, but Minnesota and Florida.
Health Care Costs: Am I missing something? Or is there a lot of flimflam going on? - O'Reilly Radar
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Ezra Klein - Health Care Reform in Danger
Health reform is, I think it fair to say, in danger right now. The news out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was bad. The Congressional Budget Office had scored a partial bill and the result was a total fiasco. But the news o
On Being a Nurse - a guest post : A Blog Around The Clock
becoming a nurse is one of the best decisions that I have ever made. I can't imagine any other job that would give me the same opportunity for meaningful, authentic human contact. I have provided comfort. I have eased suffering. I have protected the vulne
Rockefeller Consumers Health Care Act Bill Text (it's a PDF)
Ezra's summary: The public plan is given, for its first three years of existence, access to the provider networks used by Medicare, and for its first two years, access to the payment rates negotiated by Medicare.
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