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Location, Location, Location

A new Commonwealth Fund study documents that in health care, just as in real estate, it is location that matters most, as in location within a state.

whatsstherealcost.org

Have you seen the billboards sporting this web address? The ones with the statement about health care being a machine with no 'off' button?

This is now roller derby

The Los Angeles Times describes the current devolution of the congressional health reform debate as "roller derby": "It's very fast, lots of elbows, and people are playing for keeps," said Nancy L

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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners

or NAIC, has produced a well-reasoned set of principles for health system reform:

PRINCIPLES FOR HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM

Healthcare fatigue syndrome

The Hill reports today on a new illness plaguing denizens of the US Capitol: healthcare fatigue syndrome (find the report

Improving Care at the End of Life

I have been thinking about those “Death Panels” (Sarah Palin). So I thought I’d revisit a publication of the Institute of Medicine, the medical wing of the National Academy of Science.

Corporate Welfare Is Health System Waste

The Deseret News published my op ed piece (find it here) this morning, which is posted bel

A Little Girl and her Flu

JoNel Aleccia, health writer for MSNBC, posted a story about a four year old girl in Mississippi who nearly died of the H1N1 flu (find the story