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- Quora Query: Will Trump Turn Out To be the Best Thing That Happened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? 21 January, 2020
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The Affordable Care Act – On Line Now !
Gentle Reader – Perhaps like a few of you, I have been watching with growing unease the Government shutdown brought on by the Right’s intense dislike – or so it appears to me – of our Centrist President Obama. Driving … Continue reading
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Health Care Quality, Safety, Satisfaction: Is International Translation Possible?
A special lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for a course: Politics, Health, Sociology, and their Nexus
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Quality and The Affordable Care Act
There is a great deal written on President Obama’s health care – actually mostly insurance – reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much of it driven by the ideology of the writer and / or the organization for whom the … Continue reading
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Handling Absolute Lies – What Does One Do?
Gentle Reader: About a month ago, I received a request for help from a friend, S. Her mother-in-law – F. – had been sent a series of assertions related to the Affordable Care Act; things that “were going to happen”. … Continue reading
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Health Care in the Presidential Race: A Guide for the Perplexed
Gentle Reader: Professor D’Amico and I wrote this recently and tried to make it an Op-Ed piece in a couple of our national newspapers; no success. So I present it to you here. The issues involved in the health care … Continue reading
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From: The New York Times: What Can Mississippi Learn From Iran ?
Gentle Reader: Below is a piece from the NYT. A superb piece, wonderfully written, detailing at least two things: 1. We have great deal to learn from others as we try to improve our health care system. If we can … Continue reading
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From the New York Times: Please Don’t Bleed on Me While I Pick Your Pocket
Powered by Qumana Gentle Readers – There should be some sympathy for our hospitals, especially safety-net institutions, the ones that provide care to our poorest and sickest. But this article, admirably written by Ms. Silver-Greenberg, points out the depths to … Continue reading
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From the New York Times: What Does Insurance Company Administrative Cost Look Like, and Do, to Our Citizens ?
Gentle Readers – Ms. Bernstein has documented – yet again, because we know and have known this – the consequences of a for-profit health system. The roughly 30% that the private insurers consume as their administrative cost makes health care … Continue reading
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Note from Physicians to Mr. Santorum: You are Wrong on Prenatal Tests
Gentle Readers – This note was published in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News by five Maternal – Fetal Medicine colleagues from Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton (Ohio) as a way to ensure that the mis-statements and outright lies streaming from … Continue reading
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A Statement from Doctors for America
Gentle Readers – The statement following, which I am privileged to sign, is from an organization that attempts to make our lives a bit better every day. I am pleased to place this into my blog. AJ Layon ======================================================= A … Continue reading
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