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Since I am a federal employee as well as an active member of a physicians' organization that stands to gain or lose a great deal from the outcome of the U.S. health reform debate, I plan to refrain from commenting in this blog on tomorrow's televised bipartisan healthcare summit. However, I would like to share a serious excerpt from Matt Miller's otherwise tongue-in-cheek editorial (which I recommend reading in full) titled "Going for Health Care Gold: Who's Got the Better Game Plan?" in today's Washington Post:
The uninsured may seem invisible, but today their ranks are equal to the combined populations of Oregon, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Kentucky, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming. Would America turn its back on the citizens of these 25 states if every one of them lacked basic health coverage?
- Our Health Is Going Downhill: Poor Public Health And Poor Attention To The Social Determinants
“Our health is going downhill” shouts a headline in the Kansas City Star, January 4, 2009. The local take of this article, by Alan Bavley, was the poor performance of Kansas and Missouri, the two states served by the Star, on the...
- My Take On State Health Insurance Exchanges - Part 3
Regardless of whether or not the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate or the entire 2010 health reform law in June, state-based health insurance exchanges are a good idea and, if established, should benefit many working Americans...
- Essential Readings On Health Reform
Can't get a Supreme Court-side seat for next week's six hours of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act? Want to understand how the United States reached the point where the fate of a mostly yet-to-be-implemented 2010...
- Getting Health Reform Done: The Taiwanese Experience
My parents were both born in Taiwan, and about every four years (most recently, last November), I travel there to visit relatives. Since I was a child, Taiwan always struck me as in the same league as the U.S. with respect to advanced technology - in...
- After The Health Care Reform Bill Passes: What Next?
One of the best episodes of the final season of the NBC television series "The West Wing" was a special live (though probably scripted) debate between the Democratic candidate Matt Santos, played by Jimmy Smits, and the Republican candidate Arnold Vinick,...
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Health care reform as spectator sport
Since I am a federal employee as well as an active member of a physicians' organization that stands to gain or lose a great deal from the outcome of the U.S. health reform debate, I plan to refrain from commenting in this blog on tomorrow's televised bipartisan healthcare summit. However, I would like to share a serious excerpt from Matt Miller's otherwise tongue-in-cheek editorial (which I recommend reading in full) titled "Going for Health Care Gold: Who's Got the Better Game Plan?" in today's Washington Post:
The uninsured may seem invisible, but today their ranks are equal to the combined populations of Oregon, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Kentucky, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming. Would America turn its back on the citizens of these 25 states if every one of them lacked basic health coverage?
- Our Health Is Going Downhill: Poor Public Health And Poor Attention To The Social Determinants
“Our health is going downhill” shouts a headline in the Kansas City Star, January 4, 2009. The local take of this article, by Alan Bavley, was the poor performance of Kansas and Missouri, the two states served by the Star, on the...
- My Take On State Health Insurance Exchanges - Part 3
Regardless of whether or not the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate or the entire 2010 health reform law in June, state-based health insurance exchanges are a good idea and, if established, should benefit many working Americans...
- Essential Readings On Health Reform
Can't get a Supreme Court-side seat for next week's six hours of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act? Want to understand how the United States reached the point where the fate of a mostly yet-to-be-implemented 2010...
- Getting Health Reform Done: The Taiwanese Experience
My parents were both born in Taiwan, and about every four years (most recently, last November), I travel there to visit relatives. Since I was a child, Taiwan always struck me as in the same league as the U.S. with respect to advanced technology - in...
- After The Health Care Reform Bill Passes: What Next?
One of the best episodes of the final season of the NBC television series "The West Wing" was a special live (though probably scripted) debate between the Democratic candidate Matt Santos, played by Jimmy Smits, and the Republican candidate Arnold Vinick,...