Tag: healthcare
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Rising Health Care Costs: Sign of Wealth, Not Cause for Worry?
Wall Street Journal: Rising Health Care Costs: Sign of Wealth, Not Cause for Worry? Robert Fogel, a Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago, says rising spending on health care in developed countries reflects rising income of consumers with strong appetites for health care and squelching that demand ought not to be a…
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Options Expand For Avoiding Crowded ERs
Wall Street Journal: Options Expand For Avoiding Crowded ERs … Patients who need immediate care for injuries and illness, be it a nail-gun puncture or a severe stomach bug, are increasingly turning to walk-in urgent-care clinics. These facilities aim to fill the gap between the growing shortage of primary-care doctors and a shrinking number of…
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The Benefits of In-Store Clinics
Carpe Diem: The Benefits of In-Store Clinics Based on the study, I was able to put together the Top Ten reasons that private-sector retail clinics are a great alternative to government health care: 1. These clinics offer basic acute care services, as well as preventative care options. 2. They offer clear price transparency with posted…
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Let Wal-Mart fix US health care
MSN Money: Let Wal-Mart fix US health care …I say, let Wal-Mart Stores (WMT, news, msgs) do it. Hold your guffaws. Stifle your impulse to scoff. Control those sputters of rage. Wal-Mart has done more to expand coverage and lower costs in the past year than any government program to come out of Washington in…
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Robert Fogel on Improving Health Care – USA
How can we best improve people's health, both in the United States and in developing nations? Nobel laureate economist Robert Fogel wrote a book in 2004 called The Escape From Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100. Europe, America, and the Third World. The book was a fascinating (if somewhat technical) review of the era when the…
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The Health Care Crunch
Christianity Today: The Health Care Crunch Let's make sure any reform plan we pursue avoids the single-value syndrome. This is not a news flash, but it needs repeating: The health-care system in America is leaving out tens of millions of people, whose health and financial solvency are at grave risk. Take three examples from the…
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Beyond Those Health Care Numbers
New York Times: Beyond Those Health Care Numbers WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around. The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them. Rather, the dangerous ones are those that…
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How Bush would tame healthcare costs
How Bush would tame healthcare costs is a Christian Science Monitor article about Bush's proposed healthcare plan. I haven't reflected on all aspects of this, but I thought it was an interesting summary listing some pros and cons.