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Health Care “Strongest Economic Locomotive”

by Rick Ray | Dec 12, 2008 | Learn

On NPR’s All Things Considered, December 11, 2008, Uwe Reinhardt, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, called the health care sector the “strongest economic locomotive working for us.” He estimated that by 2015, health...

Health Care for the 21st Century (Dec. 2008 version)

by We Can Do Better | Dec 12, 2008 | Videos

[youtube url=”http://youtu.be/eMVvfcHxjB4″ width=”580″ fs=”1″ rel=”0″] John Kitzhaber, M.D., Governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003 (and elected governor again in 2010) shares a vision of what our health system could be...

When a Job Disappears …

by Rick Ray | Dec 7, 2008 | Learn

Robert Pear, writing in the New York Times, reports on the personal “collateral damage” of an employer-based health care system. During a recession, the fallout multiplies. » Read the whole...