HealthCare '08

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Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz

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Health Journalist
posted 03/02/2008, comments (2)

McCain is the Candidate of [Healthcare] Change

With all the talk about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's healthcare plans, presumptive GOP nominee John McCain's healthcare fix has largely slipped under the radar. But McCain is advocating one extremely important--even transformative-- change to American healthcare delivery. You know how the cost of your healthcare premiums is... Read moreChevron
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Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz

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Health Journalist
posted 02/28/2008, comments (0)

Shocker: People Want Healthcare Change

A new report from Deliotte Health Solutions comes to the not-startling conclusion that patients. . .really want changes in the healthcare system. From the executive summary: . . .[M]any American consumers want more from their health care system than they're currently getting - including greater online connection to health care providers... Read moreChevron
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Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz

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Health Journalist
posted 02/27/2008, comments (0)

McCain Continues to Drift Leftward

GOP presumtivee John McCain is often attacked from the right for not being sufficiently conservative. Well, as Ronald Reagan once famously said, "There he goes again." An item in the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on a conversation with McCain advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin who described a shift in the McCain's... Read moreChevron
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Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz

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Health Journalist
posted 02/25/2008, comments (0)

Hillary v. Barack, Explained

Still puzzling over that increasingly noisy healthcare debate between Hillary Clinton (universal coverage with mandate) Barack Obama (no universal coverage, no mandate)?  I can recommend a news report on the Clinton/Obama mandate question that offers enough context to move the issue beyond the familiar  ping-pong match.  ... Read moreChevron
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Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz

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Health Journalist
posted 02/21/2008, comments (0)

Candidates target drug makers. Prices rise

Despite the candidates calling for lower drug prices--or maybe because of it--drug prices rose almost 8 percent last year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. That's nearly double the general inflation rate.  Writes the Journal on the politics of drug prices: Drug makers are trying to keep revenues afloat by raising... Read moreChevron
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