by Rick Ray | Feb 2, 2009 | Learn
The New York Times reported on research conducted at the University of Chicago that shows, “Hospital patients are rarely able to identify their doctors by name or to describe their roles in the patients’ care.” Here’s an excerpt: Researchers at the...
by Liz Baxter | Jan 21, 2009 | We Can Do Better - News
On Tuesday, after watching the new President’s inauguration speech, I felt such common ground with him and his image of our potential, especially in talking about the values that we hold in common. When we founded the Archimedes Movement in January 2006 it was...
by Rick Ray | Jan 8, 2009 | Learn
On Christmas Day, the New York Times published an article about the effectiveness of community health centers. Here’s an excerpt: Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a 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...
by We Can Do Better | Dec 12, 2008 | Videos
[youtube url=”http://youtu.be/eMVvfcHxjB4″ width=”580″ fs=”1″ rel=”0″] John Kitzhaber, M.D., Governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003 (and elected governor again in 2010) shares a vision of what our health system could be...
by Rick Ray | Dec 7, 2008 | Learn
Robert Pear, writing in the New York Times, reports on the personal “collateral damage” of an employer-based health care system. During a recession, the fallout multiplies. » Read the whole...
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