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health care costs
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Polls, studies used to compare U.S., Canada care
The Associated Press’ Charmaine Noronha takes another look at the Canadian health care system, focusing on the debate over its…
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Post-reform plans may still be too spendy for some
Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau reports that, even if current health care proposals (Rau focuses on the House bill) were…
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Document shows how Lexapro became blockbuster
The New York Times‘ Gardiner Harris digs into just what a recently released document (89-page pdf) shows us about how…
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Seniors could be reform’s largest wild card
Michael Booth and Karen E. Crummy of The Denver Post report that, with AARP effectively neutralized by fire from both…
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More Health Policy myth Whac-A-Mole
As part of his Health Care Fact Check series, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Stephen Koff looks into the theory that…
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Documentary tonight examines health care system
The documentary “Money-Driven Medicine,” based on a 2006 book of the same name by Maggie Mahar, will air tonight on…
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AIDS advocates: Obama needs to use leverage
The Chicago Tribune‘s Tom Hamburger reports that several global health advocacy organizations, including Doctors without Borders and OxFam International, have…
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Lieberman, Schwitzer on Health Policy, coverage
FAIR, a media watch group, interviewed AHCJ members Trudy Lieberman and Gary Schwitzer in an attempt to cut through the…
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Markets offer examples to improve costs, quality
In a New York Times op-ed, Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark McClellan discuss a recent meeting of…
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Making sense of Health Policy rumors
The New York Times‘ Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn do their best to help regular folks understand the increasingly…