Obama’s One-two Punch vs. Health Insurance Choice
“President Obama, in a pivot from some of his harshest campaign rhetoric, told Democratic senators [on June 2] that he is willing to...
Healthcare
Swine Flu: Cure Worse Than the Disease
Every person with an ounce of common sense, and an equal amount of compassion for his fellow human beings, takes public health threats...
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Swine Flu Battle Called “Encouraging”
Though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said on May 4 that the virus it now officially designates as "novel...
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Swine Flu Outbreak May Be Overblown
While it is still too early to claim that the swine flu outbreak is being overblown, events are beginning to suggest that may...
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Cases of Swine Flu Inch Up
Information posted on the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on April 28 confirmed a total of 64 human cases of...
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World Unnerved by Spread of Swine Flu
The world watched warily on April 27, as cases of swine flu that first emerged in Mexico in recent weeks in near-epidemic proportions...
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Taking “Absolutely Not” for an Answer on Veterans’ Healthcare
In early March, veterans’ groups got wind of a plan by the Obama administration to charge veterans’ private health insurance companies for service-related...
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SCHIP of State
President Obama and most of the press cheered the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, but can SCHIP (pronounced "ship") stay...
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Stay Healthy: Government Healthcare May Be Coming
If they had been designing a health system from scratch, the change agents assuming power in January would have done things differently. Barack...
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Bad Economics & Medicine
ITEM: In an article entitled "5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System" in the Washington Post for November 23, 2008, Shannon Brownlee and...
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Cancer Researchers Make Breakthrough
New research, published in the medical journal Nature, suggests that scientists have for the first time come to a better and more thorough...
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Mental-health Parity’s Poison Pill
ITEM: The New York Times for October 6 reported: "More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental...
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Hawaiian Healthcare Holdup
Seven months after instituting the only state child universal healthcare program in the country, Hawaii is dropping the plan. According to an AP...
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Socialized Medicine Gets Court Approval in San Francisco
A federal appeals court recently upheld a San Francisco ruling requiring employers to either offer healthcare coverage to their employees or fund a...
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