by Rick Ray | Dec 30, 2009 | Learn
In his “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times, Leonard writes about the challenge of cutting health care costs while maintaining or improving quality: At the heart of the health care debate is the question of whether it’s possible to cut medical...
by Rick Ray | Dec 16, 2009 | Learn
In today’s New York Times, Catherine Rampall reports on the rank of the USA in use of high-tech imaging technologies. Here is one of the graphs: OECD Health Data 2009 Number of CT exams per 1,000 population, 2007 (or latest year available). Numbers for Australia...
by Rick Ray | Dec 13, 2009 | Learn
Atul Gawande, the M.D. who has been writing so brilliantly about our health crisis, has done it again. Writing for the New Yorker, Gawande addresses the current reform bills being debated in our nation’s Capitol. Here’s the beginning of his article:...
by Rick Ray | Dec 13, 2009 | Learn
Claims about a government takeover, rationing largely unfounded In her Vital Signs column for Marketwatch, Kristen Gerencher writes: “As the clock ticks toward what could be final congressional approval of the most sweeping health-reform legislation in more than...
by Rick Ray | Dec 9, 2009 | Learn
Total health expenditure per capita, public and private, 2007 The AP reports on a new study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international an international organization of 30 countries, including the U.S., that accept the principles...
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