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Topic: Public Health Policy

  

The State of Healthcare 2008

This is the first installment of the state of healthcare in the United States, which is a great time because with the primaries heating up, it's great to look at what our candidates are using as rhetoric for solving the health care ...READ MORE

Health Care Coverage Confusing

When things change in the health care system, people get royally confused. READ MORE

The Times They Are Changing for Health Insurance

While it is nice to know that there are likely changes in the wind for the health care system in the United States, it is disappointing to see that those changes may set the system back even more.READ MORE

The Health Care Industry Has a Big, Fat Carbon Footprint

The U.S health-care debate may be centered around money, but researchers at the University of Chicago recently published a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association looking at a different kind of cost: the ...READ MORE

Transparent Health Care a Must

Transparent health care costs would ensure the current abuse of the system would decrease.READ MORE

Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

The Senate began to slog its way through amendments (see below) last week in a process that promises to get harder, not easier.READ MORE

Private Healthcare?

An article in the Sunday New York Times caught my eye. It talked about a possible government mandate to standardize computerized health records, if the industry doesn't come up with a set of technical standards on its own. The ...READ MORE

All Physicians Are Not Created Equal: How to Fix Medicine's Two-Party System

Imagine there is a committee of politicians made up of 24 republicans and 5 democrats. Their job is to decide a politician's salary--for democrats and republicans--and decisions are made by majority rule. Which party do you think ...READ MORE

Health Insurance Quotes Reform EasyToInsureME

On November 21st Senate lawmakers voted along party lines to move ahead with a floor debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's READ MORE

My Brush with Swine Flu--We Dodged It, But What About Next Time?

At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force.  Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time?  Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ MORE

Age Related Health Care

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if a person is older, they would likely pay more for health insurance, as opposed to younger people.READ MORE

Harnessing the Net, One Phone at a Time.

Voxiva's Paul Meyer is using telephones to bring the power of the Internet to areas that can't afford computers.READ MORE

Health Insurance Prices Are Affected by Various Things

There are three things that affect the price of health insurance medical inflation, medical errors and the humans who use the system.READ MORE

President Obama Continues to Push for Electronic Medical Records

Since he was candidate Obama, the new President has been calling for a comprehensive electronic medical records system with the U.S. Health Care juggernaut.READ MORE

Could Oversharing Save the Lives of Seniors?

A new device lets long-term-care patients broadcast their moods via Facebook and Twitter.READ MORE

EmpowHer Launches Free Health Events for Women

There's a long story behind this launch post. I'm on the advisory board of EmpowHer.com, a women's health site founded by a friend of mine, Michelle Robson, who had an awful experience with the health care system and decided ...READ MORE

Health Insurance Quotes Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

Health care reform provisions are changing fast as the Senate considers numerous amendments on the floor, and there is no better example of how fast than the much-reported government plan option.READ MORE

Mobile Phones as Outbreak Predictors?

A new global consortium wants to predict disease outbreaks in a matter of 24 hours.READ MORE

Health Care Needs to be About the Majority, NOT the Minority

While you might think that's an odd thought – that health care needs to be about the majority of the people and not about the minority of people – it's a well-known fact that roughly 20 percent of those in the health care system are responsible for at least 80 percent of the costs.READ MORE

Health Reform Weekly : EasyToInsureME : June 26 2009

The "bumps in the road" to health care reform were quite visible this past week.READ MORE

Med Student Pioneers “Political Medicine” in Rural Haiti

DoSomething, headed by Fast Company columnist Nancy Lublin, has recognized five young social entrepreneurs with $10,000 grants--and one with a prize of $100,000. Fast Company will profile one of these enterprising youth each day this ...READ MORE

Causes of Child Deaths Hiding in Plain Sight

New Save the Children and UNICEF Reports reveal how financial mismanagement and environmental insensitivity led to the deaths of four million children.READ MORE

How to Make Your Company More Resilient

The lessons learned during Odwalla's 1996 E. coli crisis have guided the juice company to financial recovery and explosive growth.READ MORE

Did Merck Really Try to Deliberately Silence Critics?

Disturbing article on Total Health Breakthroughs about a deliberate campaign by Merck to intimidate, defund ,and otherwise make life miserable for doctors who dared to speak out about the nasty and sometimes-lethal side effects of ...READ MORE

One Man's Drive... One Company's Courage

Anglo American is by far the dominant company in a proud country that is being ravaged by AIDS. Dr. Brian Brink made it his business to transform Anglo's approach to saving lives in South Africa -- even if it meant incurring the wrath of a government that prefers to look the other way. Meet the determined face of corporate citizenship.READ MORE