by Rick Ray | Jul 16, 2009 | Learn
In a blog post in the Huffington Post, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom writes about the successes of the city’s expaned health care program: But in San Francisco we are going far beyond the notion of health care as just a way of treating sickness. We are saving...
by Rick Ray | Jul 16, 2009 | Learn
[UPDATE: From the New York Times (7/17/09): A high-level state commission recommended Thursday that Massachusetts seek to rein in health care costs by radically restructuring the way doctors and hospitals are paid. Read more.] In a real-life test of what happens when...
by Rick Ray | Jul 16, 2009 | Learn
When should a health care system that is trying to maximize the health of an entire population deny an individual a specific treatment? What is the value of extending a life for a day, or a year? In a long and excellent article for the New York Times, Peter Singer, a...
by Rick Ray | Jul 13, 2009 | Learn
This came in recently from Jonathan Ater, who served as vice-chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board: The following op-ed from the New York Times makes the same point that the Oregon Health Fund Board made: the problem with health care is not simply a financial problem,...
by Liz Baxter | Jul 6, 2009 | We Can Do Better - News
In the last 12 months we’ve seen a dramatic shift in our dialog about health care. Though we are only just beginning the process of implementing reform efforts, there are many hopeful signs. The public now realizes that we can’t talk about health reform...
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