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Health Policy
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CJR: Unmask AMA’s push to steer reform, please
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, notes that the mighty American Medical Association…
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Report compares reform estimates, finds huge savings
A report from the Health Policy-focused Commonwealth Fund compares costs over the next decade for numerous reform options, using estimates…
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Dr. Haig: Patients often demand excessive tests
Doctors are in such a position legally, economically and socially that it is difficult to fight patients’ demands for excessive,…
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Center: Physician performance metrics show potential
Writing for the Center for Studying Health System Change, Debra A. Draper sees great potential in the quantification of physician…
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Lack of performance info difficult for patients, docs
Harlan Krumholz, M.D., writes in The Washington Post that, while better quantitative monitoring would greatly improve the experiences of both…
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Diabetes study ups ante for comparing treatments
Of all the potential reforms to the health-care system, one of the most profound might turn out to be a…
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Health costs lurk behind middle-class bankruptcies
Medical bills and gaps in health coverage are wreaking havoc on the finances of the middle class, say researchers who…
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Pharmacists could be ‘patient coaches’ for a price
A chance to reform health care is also a chance for some folks to make a case for a bigger…
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Mass., Tenn. provide test cases for federal reform
AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson takes a look at health care reform in Massachusetts and Tennessee and how the…
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Two communities, two tales of health care costs
In The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, M.D., looks at how the United States can contain the rising cost of health…