From The New York Times: For Insurers, Fight Is Now Over Details Health insurers are lobbying over a rule that 80 cents of each dollar in premiums must be spent on patient welfare. http://nyti.ms/bRPluy
July 20, 2010
From The New York Times: OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Roots of White Anxiety To understand the country’s polarization, take a look at the admissions process at elite private colleges. http://nyti.ms/dsATR7
June 4, 2010
Medscape Today Headlines June 3, 2010 3:56 PM Even more physicians would restrict the number of Medicare patients they see or stop taking new ones if Congress passes a short-term SGR fix, according to a new AMA survey. Medscape Medical News Business of Medicine News Physicians Seeing Fewer Medicare Patients Because of Low Pay and… [Read more…]
June 3, 2010
From The New York Times: Data Used to Justify Health Savings Can Be Shaky A report is used to show that Americans could save while maintaining quality, but that may not always hold. http://nyti.ms/a31hD3
June 2, 2010
From The New York Times: Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries The practice of excluding minorities from Southern juries remains widespread and largely unchecked. http://nyti.ms/d2cIVG
May 31, 2010
Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog May 28, 2010 9:22 AM by noreply (Ves Dimov, M.D.) From CNN: Dr. Schreiber sees 120 patients a week – 30% of them are enrolled directly in Medicare, while another 65% have private insurance plans that peg their payments on Medicare’s rates. Only 5% pay on their own. Medicare pays… [Read more…]
May 27, 2010
SciDev.Net May 25, 2010 12:43 AM Clever approaches are needed to decouple research costs from the price of resulting vaccines, say charities. Poor still missing key vaccines, says report
May 26, 2010
From The New York Times: POLITICAL TIMES: 2010’s Debates Still Trapped in the 1960s President Obama based his campaign on the idea of stepping past the cultural chasm of an earlier era, but the argument is still over Vietnam and segregation. http://nyti.ms/dwJr97
May 19, 2010
Bioethics Forum May 17, 2010 9:54 AM by Susan Gilbert As soon as President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the administration, members of Congress who voted for the legislation, and key interest group began the campaign to “sell” the new health care reform law to a skeptical public. Arguably, these efforts… [Read more…]
May 19, 2010
Carnegie Council Resources RSS Feed May 18, 2010 1:37 PM by info (Raghuram G. Rajan, Joanne J. Myers) Rajan traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted U.S. consumer to power global economic growth, and where the U.S. has growing inequality and a thin social safety net. If these flaws… [Read more…]
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