Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage
Category: Healthcare policy
Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering -- as is the complacency about same.
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Top 5 Neuron Culture Posts for October
Category: Swine flu
A bit early yet, but as I'm traveling the rest of the month, here's my top 5 over the last month. Swine flu everywhere you look.
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Why is the swine flu vaccine so late? Who are you to ask such a question?
Category: Healthcare policy
I like industrial secrets as much as the next person. But it would seem that when tens of millions of doses of vaccine are weeks late, we might get something more specific than that one company was overoptimistic and another had trouble filling syringes.
Posted by David Dobbs at 8:43 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"The right to infect": SophiaZoe tells us what she really thinks about health workers & flu shots
Category: Healthcare policy
Nurses and doctors have won a victory in their battle for their "right" to infect patients with easily prevented...
Posted by David Dobbs at 8:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If Vermont is #1 in health care, this country's in big trouble
Category: Healthcare policy
The steps we've taken, while half-measures to be sure, reflect the state's essential decency and civility. Yet Vermont's distinction is not in curing the healthcare problem. We're just stanching the bleeding a bit better than other states.
Posted by David Dobbs at 9:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Healthcare reform roundup: The Turnaround
Category: Healthcare policy
The tone of discussions of reform in both Congress and the blogosphere has changed remarkably over the last few days. It's gone from pessimistic to optimistic, and from a sense of retreat and a whittling away of substantive reform toward a careful expansion of reform -- including the inclusion of a public option.
Posted by David Dobbs at 8:21 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Am I dreaming, or are both swine flu and the healtcare reform backlash in retreat?
Category: Healthcare policy
Probably dreaming. But now and then it all seems so real.
Posted by David Dobbs at 12:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is American Healthcare Going All Euro on Us?
Category: Healthcare policy
Ezra Klein thinks it might. "We're America," Max Baucus likes to say. "Which means we have to write a...
Posted by David Dobbs at 5:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Health-Care Secret Revealed, Again: More Is Not Better
Category: Healthcare policy
"If there's any way out of our current health-care morass, it's this: In health care, more expensive care is often no better than less expensive care."
Posted by David Dobbs at 9:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Power of Anecdote
Category: Healthcare policy
"if a skilled physician cannot resist orders for expensive tests and unnecessary drugs, there is no chance that individual consumers, even if they have more skin in the game, will be more successful. "
Posted by David Dobbs at 9:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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