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As Chris discussed Saturday the WSJ had a silly article in which a woman demands a prescription drug from a...
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Category: Health Care
As Chris discussed Saturday the WSJ had a silly article in which a woman demands a prescription drug from a...
Posted by MarkH at 6:00 AM • 37 Comments •
Category: Health Care
With the recent victory of this administration in passing health care reform I felt it was time to talk again...
Posted by MarkH at 6:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Health Care
So who here has actually read the health care bill?. I've been devoting a bit of time each week to...
Posted by MarkH at 7:00 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Birthers
Despite rumors to the contrary, I am not dead. Instead I've been working hard as a new surgical intern and sadly not finding the time to write for the denialism blog. However, now more than ever, it seems that we need to talk about the problem of denialism.
Posted by MarkH at 2:02 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Health Care
We're starting to hear about how Obama intends to implement healthcare in this country. The letter published at whitehouse.gov, lays out some basic ideas, but it seems as though Obama is willing to have congress work out the specifics. Let's go through his recommendations and talk about the implications.
Posted by MarkH at 12:41 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Health Care
Three systems widely cited as examples of universal health care are the so-called single-payer systems in the UK, Canada and...
Posted by MarkH at 6:30 AM • 52 Comments •
Category: Health Care
The question has come up again and again in our discussions on health care in the US and around the world, why does it cost so much more in the US when we get so much less?
Posted by MarkH at 12:26 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: Health Care
Here it comes. How dare I suggest the US could learn anything from France? By most assessments France provides the best health care in the world, with excellent life expectancy, low rates of health-care amenable disease, and again, despite providing excellent universal care, they spend less per capita than the US.
Posted by MarkH at 6:21 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Health Care
What better argument for universal health care can you make than that of Germany? By far one of the most successful systems, it has had some form of universal health care for almost 130 years, and is currently one of the most successful health care systems in the world.
Posted by MarkH at 6:36 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: Health Care
The Dutch really have it together on health care, they have a system that has been proposed as a model for the US to emulate. In stark contrast to many other European systems, it's actually based entirely on private insurers, rather than a single-payer or entirely national system. Yet the Dutch system is universal, has far superior rates of satisfaction with quality of care and access, and still costs a fraction of what we pay for health care per capita in the US. How is this possible?
Posted by MarkH at 6:20 AM • 49 Comments •
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