by Hillary Regan | May 19, 2017 | Events, Events from selected partners
Sick Around the World: Other Rich Countries Have Universal Health Care; Why Don’t We? Join us for a FREE public showing of this PBS documentary about health care in other developed countries. WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7-8pm: showing of the documentary 8-9pm:...
by Hillary Regan | Feb 9, 2017 | Events, Events from selected partners
When former Oregon-resident filmmakers Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg began shooting Now is the Time- Healthcare for Everybody, they had no idea the U.S. healthcare system was about to be thrown into disarray by the new administration’s effort to repeal the...
by Hillary Regan | May 19, 2015 | Learn
Health care innovation centers around the country are working to discover, develop, test, and spread new models of care delivery—in hospitals, clinics, and patients’ homes. Between November 2014 and January 2015, The Commonwealth Fund conducted an online survey of...
by Liz Baxter | Apr 16, 2012 | Learn, Uncategorized
An opinion piece from the New York Times states: We don’t know what it costs to deliver health care to individual patients, much less how those costs compare to the outcomes achieved. Authors Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter are currently working with several health...
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...
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