by Rick Ray | May 14, 2009 | Learn
In his blog yesterday, former labor secretary Robert Reich demystified the recent headlines about Social Security and Medicare: What are we to make of yesterday’s report from the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds that Social Security will...
by Rick Ray | Apr 21, 2009 | Learn
Powerful story in today’s New York Times about the role of community and friendship in long term health. Here’s an excerpt: In the quest for better health, many people turn to doctors, self-help books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful...
by Rick Ray | Apr 15, 2009 | Learn
This article addressing how we approach end-of-life care appeared last year in the New York Times. It’s one of those makes-you-think articles, and it includes some nifty graphs. Here’s how it begins: Not long ago Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician who pulls...
by Rick Ray | Apr 8, 2009 | Learn
In an editorial publlished on April 6th, 2009, the New York Times makes the case that a public insurance plan option be included in national health reform. You can also find the editorial online. A Public Plan for Health Insurance? President Obama has rightly called...
by Rick Ray | Mar 13, 2009 | Learn
The Business Roundtable, which represents large US companies, has issued a report highlighting the competitive disadvantage that our health system places on US companies in the global marketplace. Writing for the Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports: If...
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