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HealthMatters: The National Health Insurance Model

WEBBlumenthal & Morone, The Heart Of Power: Health And Politics In The Oval Office Bodenheimer & Grumbach, Understanding Health Policy Brownlee, Overtreated: …

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HealthMatters: The Beveridge Model

WEBToday, the Beveridge Model is applied by Cuba, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. With the exception of Cuba, all …

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HealthMatters: The Bismarck Model

WEBIn 1883, the reactionary German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, a Prussian autocrat through and through, proposed the health care model that came to be adopted …

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HealthMatters: IOM: Six Aims of Quality Health Care

WEBIn 2002, the Institute of Medicine published Crossing the Quality Chasm, an influential book that framed all future discussions of quality health care. Crossing came …

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HealthMatters: The Rise in Medical Expenditures (1)

WEBPaul J. Feldstein is Professor and Robert Gumbiner Chair in Health Care Management at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine. Feldstein has written …

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HealthMatters: Paul Ryan on Single-Payer

WEBAs Sam Husseini reports, there is a fair amount of floundering and disingenuousness in Ryan's remarks.It's not the case, for example, that government-run …

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An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seaman

WEBIn 1798, President John Adams signed the United States' first health care reform law -- An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seaman. The law authorized the …

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HealthMatters: February 2011

WEBThe Affordable Care Act encourages experimentation with a new method of delivering health care called an Accountable Care Organization. Currently, …

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HealthMatters: The Profit Motive in Health Care

WEBIn case there was any doubt, Gapenski and Pink's textbook Understanding Healthcare Financial Management spells out the decision drivers for profit and not-for-profit …

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HealthMatters: The American Health Policy Trap

WEBThe American health policy trap: a costly and complicated system that has left a growing minority of Americans without financial protection in sickness but has …

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HealthMatters: Choice

WEBDavid Brooks argues that the future of health care comes down to "centralized technocratic" planning or a a free market solution. Health care, he sagely observes, is …

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HealthMatters: December 2013

WEBAbstract: Following the Supreme Court’s decision in 2012, state officials are now deciding whether to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act. While the …

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HealthMatters: Reverse Deductible

WEBReverse Deductible. A problematic byproduct of the American approach to health care has been the divorcing of a substantial number of patients from health care …

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HealthMatters: The Tragedy of the Ten-Million Acre Bill

WEBI readily and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all as men and citizens, and as among the highest and holiest of our duties, to provide for those who, in …

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HealthMatters: Replace

WEBBlumenthal & Morone, The Heart Of Power: Health And Politics In The Oval Office Bodenheimer & Grumbach, Understanding Health Policy Brownlee, Overtreated: Why …

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Which Country Has The Most Efficient Health Care System

WEBThis is a raw measure, but useful for comparison purposes. I've taken the Healthy Life Expectancy of 25 countries and divided it by their % of Gross Domestic Product spent …

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HealthMatters: Money Won't Buy You Health Insurance

WEBDonna Dubinsky writes: This isn't the story of a poor family with a mother who has a dreadful disease that bankrupts them, or a child who has to go without vital medicines.

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Kaiser Permanente Poll on the Affordable Care Act

WEB"Public opinion on health reform remains dug in this month, with the public roughly divided on the new law and partisans holding opposite views, a pattern that has …

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