Topic: Social Policy

Mobile Phones as Outbreak Predictors?

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

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»

American Apparel's Dov Charney Blames Immigration Reform for Troubles in Team Conference Call

Neither American Apparel's financials nor nasty reports of sexist hiring practices are the problem, founder and CEO Dov Charney tells his employees -- and an AA rep tells us. The problem here is immigration reform. READ»

Jeannie Cho Lee Is the Asian Wine Market's Own Julia Child

Gary V.'s got nothing on Jeannie C.READ»

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»

Next Health: Better Office Health Through Employee's Diet

Moderation, schmoderation. Can Zoe Finch Totten's whole-foods-only wellness system attack companies' health-care costs through employees' stomachs?READ»

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Could Oversharing Save the Lives of Seniors?

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

Health Care Reform Update from Easy To Insure ME

May 12, 2010Read this week about what is happening on the federal legislative front of Health Care Reform.House Hearing on Health Care Pricing Transparency ProposalsThe House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing ...READ»

Current Health Insurance Reform Issues

No sooner had President Obama signed the last piece of the health insurance reform package on March 30 than he hit the road, traveling to a number of states to sell the public on the new health care law of the land. On their Easter/Passover recess break, many members of Congress were engaged in their own READ»

Chris Cappuccilli - Receivables Recovery Redefined

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Health Insurance Reform In Conclusion

The President's signature on health care reform legislation March 23 and his signing on March 30 of the Reconciliation measure to "fix" the March 23 version starts the clock ticking for implementation of the biggest change to American health care in 45 years. Irrespective of policy position or political persuasion, two truthsREAD»

Health-Care Bill Will Cost AT&T $1 Billion, May Lead to Cut in Retiree Drug Coverage: Who's to Blame?

This story may well get a lot of press from both sides of the health-care debate this week. It's a little complex, but it's worth understanding fully; retirees may lose benefits over this, and we need to know why.READ»

Redesigning Education: Rethinking the School Corridor

School hallways are just as important as classrooms when it comes to learning. So why are they built like factories? Part one in Trung Le's series about designing smarter schools.READ»

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Who's Cashing In on Health-Care Reform?

If the health-care bill signed into law by President Obama today delivers on its promises, it's likely to down as the first ripple in a tidal wave of health-care information-technology innovation. It buoys last year's economic ...READ»

Cheryl Contee, founder of Fission Strategy

Oxfam, Greenpeace, the ACLU, MomsRising -- nonprofits and grassroot groups big and small have tapped Cheryl Contee to apply tech solutions to the activist arena.READ»

Ohio Health Insurance Reform Information

Ohio health insurance reform information. View the latest changes and information regarding Ohio health care reform.READ»

Individual Health Insurance Reform Update Easy To Insure ME

believe health care costs will continue to rise, and 52 percent think the quality of care will go down. Further, 57 percent believe passage of the proposal currently working its way through Congress will hurt the economy. READ»

Health Care Reform March 15 2010

Week of March 15, 2010The White House last week continued to rail against rising health insurance premiums to help build popular support for his health care reform package. But the effort to focus the blame for rising costs on ...READ»

The Week in Health Reform

The Week in Health Reform—Federal Legislative OverviewThe White HouseOn March 3, President Obama continued his push for Members of Congress to complete health insurance reform legislation within the upcoming weeks. He delivered a ...READ»

This Week in Health Insurance Reform Easy To Insure ME

Americans Support Incremental Steps to Reform: In a newly released Rasmussen Reports survey , 52 percent of American voters continue to oppose the health care plan proposed by President ObamaREAD»

Project GreenVax Makes Vaccines Out of Tobacco Plants Instead of Eggs

Did you get a H1N1 flu shot? You can thank unhatched chicken eggs for that. But a new venture dubbed Project GreenVax aims to take animals completely out of the equation by making vaccines with tobacco plants. In traditional ...READ»

Health Insurance Reforms Easy To Insure ME health insurance quotes

Nearly 31 percent said they thought the Democratic bills would make their personal financial situation worse, compared with 10 percent who said it would improve their family budgets. * Forty-two percent said the nation's fiscal condition would suffer because of the legislation, compared with 26 percent who said it would get better.READ»

Taking Bets: Will Real Reason for Health Reform--Uncoupling Work and Coverage--Come Up at Tomorrow's Summit? (Poll)

Leading up to tomorrow's Health Care Summit, I've been trying to follow each political party's public positioning as to why their approach is preferable. You hear a lot about the current health care reality: 40+ million people ...READ»

Health Insurance Reform Weekly from EasyToInsureME health insurance

In a pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS, President Obama said that he would like to host a televised healthREAD»

Health Insurance Reform EasyToInsureME FEBRUARY 5 2010

Despite proclaiming to focus on other issues, such as the economy and jobs, President Barack Obama injected new energy into the health insurance reform debate this week. READ»