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posted 02/20/2008, comments (0)

It's the doctors, stupid

Can healthcare be reformed by supporting primary care doctors? In an arresting commentary on National Public Radio, former assistant Surgeon General (and family physician) Douglas Kamerow argues that U.S. healthcare is expensive and inefficient partly because there aren't enough primary care doctors to coordinate care.   Doctors... Read moreChevron
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posted 02/16/2008, comments (0)

Socialized Medicine: Not so Scary to Many

When Republicans want to instill fear in voters' hearts, they say Democrats' healthcare plans will result in "socialized medicine." They usually mean to summon images of government control of physician practices, rationing of care by bureaucrats and high taxes to pay for it all.   A recent survey about Americans'... Read moreChevron
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posted 02/14/2008, comments (5)

Is Disease Prevention Worth the Money?

In response to Hillary Clinton's, Barack Obama's and other presidential candidates' calls for more spending on prevention programs, a group of researchers has dug into the existing data on the costs and benefits of disease prevention programs. The results of the prevention study appear in today's New England Journal of... Read moreChevron
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posted 02/11/2008, comments (4)

Who buys individual health insurance? Not many

When people don't have health insurance through an employer or public plan, what do they do?  They don't buy health insurance in the individual market, for the most part.  That's the finding of a new report on individual health insurance purchasers by the Kaiser Family Foundation.  Essentially the researchers found that... Read moreChevron
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posted 02/09/2008, comments (0)

Clinton Imagines Healthcare Debate With McCain and. . .Obama

In an interview with the Seattle Times, Hillary Clinton used a novel technique to try to explain why Barack Obama's less-than-universal healthcare plan is insufficient--she imagines a debate between Obama and the presumptive GOP nominee: "Picture the debate [with Obama and] Senator [John] McCain: He's going to stand up and say... Read moreChevron
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