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Proliferating Health Care Reform Principles |
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Fred Fortin, WorldHealthCareBlog.org, Feb. 7, 2008
We are awash in health care reform principles. Every organization, it seems, has to have a set. Maybe an enterprising young doctoral student could put it all together in a grand matrix of some sort, or some magisterial dissertation — Health Care Reform Principalia — or employ some grand unified field theory approach to the many variations of principle we are subject to. In any event, some of these have come across my desk, so at the very least I’ll share some links for quick access to some of the more thoughtful ones.
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What Is Missing in Business Group's Reform Proposal? |
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By Scott MacStravic, WorldHealthCareBlog,org, Feb. 1, 2008
The National Business Group on Health published its Principles for National Health Care Reform on January 31. It outlines a dozen steps that should be taken to solve the generally recognized “brokenness” of the health care system. The principles and steps are similar to those recommended by a number of gurus, politicians, and reformers, but they contain some self-serving suggestions, while leaving out some essential elements.
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Do Presidential Candidates Really Represent Americans' Views on Health Care? |
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By Fred Fortin, WorldHealthCareBlog.org, Jan. 23, 2008
Well, I know I keep harping on this point (made here and here), but let’s review: In answer to the following question asked in an ongoing Kaiser Health Tracking Poll,
“Thinking about all the candidates for president in 2008, regardless of political party or who you intend to vote for, which candidate BEST represents your views on health care?”
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Too Bad About Universal Health Insurance – We Can't Afford It |
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By Scott MacStravic, WorldHealthCareBlog.org, Jan. 30, 2008
The demise of the California effort to bypass federal inability to address the issue by passing a state universal health insurance plan can be no real surprise, nor can it be deemed all bad. It has put into increasingly sharp relief the basic barrier that should be in the minds of legislators and policy wonks, alike – how can we pay for it? The problem includes two things we cannot yet do: 1) predict the costs and full effects of universal insurance to the country; and 2) control the effects we do not want, while promoting those we do want.
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