by Rick Ray | Aug 20, 2009 | Learn
In George Lakoff’s Diary on the Daily Kos blog, Lakoff explains the messaging mess that is plaguing health reform. Here’s an excerpt: Barack Obama ran the best-organized and best-framed presidential campaign in history. How is it possible that the same...
by Liz Baxter | Aug 19, 2009 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
Here’s what I know. We have not worked all these years on health reform in order for Congress to pass a bill mandating that Americans must buy health insurance from a private company, regardless of whether it is for-profit or not-for-profit. If this is the...
by Rick Ray | Aug 14, 2009 | Learn
Recently, in the New York Times, Atul Gawande was joined by three other physicians in making the case for reforming how we deliver health care so that we can improve outcomes while lowering the cost of care. As with any “10-step” program, the first step is...
by Rick Ray | Aug 12, 2009 | Learn
PBS’ Newshour has a segment that gets at the heart of health reform: improving outcomes while lowering costs: “At a clinic in Billings, Mont., doctors are employees rather than contractors paid under a fee-for-service model. President Obama has touted this...
by Liz Baxter | Aug 11, 2009 | We Can Do Better - News
Wow, the town halls are hot in the news – but not because the media is talking about what we need in terms of health reform, or how the health crisis is hurting Americans and American businesses, but because of the sound of people trying to disrupt the town hall...
by Rick Ray | Jul 25, 2009 | Learn
In his New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman finally discusses some of the things that drive the high costs and low health outcomes of our current health care system: Many health care experts believe that one main reason we spend far more on health than any...
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