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Matthew Holt

Health care consultant and political commentator

posted 06/24/2008, comments (0)

Barack Obama's Prescription for Change

This commentary originally appeared at Spot-On.com on June 12, 2008. Clinton has quit, Obama has three times McCain's resources, and the country is fed up with the Republicans' war, corruption and toadying to corporations. Democrats have won three "safe" Republican house seats in recent months. It's their election to lose, and... Read more Chevron

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Craig Stoltz

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posted 06/13/2008, comments (9)

The Voters Want. . .Electronic Medical Records?

Over half of Americans think the next U.S. President should support. . .access to electronic medical records. Compared to gas prices, the economy and the war in Iraq, this is, needless to say, a fairly minor issue. Even within the issue of health care reform, access to EMRs, as digital medical records are known, it's small... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/13/2008, comments (0)

Transparency and American Health Records

Once a week, I go without makeup. I don't wear much normally -- a smudge of concealer, a coat of mascara, but it's enough to make me feel covered, safe.When I'm taking a break from traveling, working from my home office in Rotterdam, Holalnd, I go to war without armor. I make a conscious effort to strip away trappings and get back to bare essence,... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/05/2008, comment (1)

McCain 22 percent, Obama 3 percent

No, those aren't polling numbers from American Samoa. Those are the worst-case computed results of each candidate's risk of having a heart attack over the next 10 years, using a popular heart-health assessment tool known as the Framingham Risk Score. This data was first surfaced by the brilliant folks at The Wall Street Journal Health... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/02/2008, comments (0)

Young People Going Uninsured: Beyond the "Invinceable Factor"

Do young people decline to get insurance because they can't imagine they'll get sick or injured? A new report from the Commonwealth Fund questions that assumption--and sets the table for interesting discussions about healthcare reform as the general eletion (remains) poised to begin. So why don't high school and college grads... Read more Chevron

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