A Conversation with Rep. Mitch Greenlick: Health Reform in Oregon
[vimeo url="http://vimeo.com/5017572 441 298" width="580"] Archimedes Movement executive director, Liz Baxter, is joined by Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council members Mike Grady and David Pollack. This conversation includes an update on the status of...
The Truth Behind Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells
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 run...
What Are Friends For? A Longer Life
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 weapon that...
How Many of You Expect to Die?
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 no punches in...
A Public Plan for Health Insurance
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...
US on Short End of ‘Value Gap’
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...
Common Ground Ahead of Health Care Forum
Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council member Jason Gingerich passed along this link to a story on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Jason wrote, "The highlight is that the Obama administration sees the need for reform of the delivery system as...
Path to a High Performance Health System
The Commonwealth Fund created a commission to make recommendations for a high performance health system for the United States. Here's the summary: This report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System offers recommendations for a...
No Lunch Left Behind
In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Alice Waters and Katrina Herron write about what it would take to make our National School Lunch Program successful. The Archimedes Movement is all about health. If we are to improve the overall health of our population, which...
Invitation to President Barack Obama
[Over 2200 individuals and nearly 50 organizations signed-on to this letter from Gov. Kitzhaber. The letter was received by President Obama on February 4th, 2009. Below the letter is a list of the organizations that co-signed this letter.] Dear President Obama, It is...
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