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Be sensible in assessing cost, quality of health care
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Good medical care is not necessarily more medical care. It's not
necessarily less medical care, either. It's care that makes sense --
and you can make sure that's what you get. The Institute for Health
Policy and Clinical Practice at the Dartmouth Medical School
publishes a periodic Atlas of Health Care. In the latest edition,
recently released, the costs and quality of care delivered to
patients during the last two years of life were compared with
surprising results. Some of the best care, a...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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BEWARE OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN.(NEWS)(Column)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Harold Vick I would like to suggest a few answers for Michael Toombs (Letters, July 10) and your June 30 editorial The wrong health care bill as to why we should not have universal medical care. My wife and I are being kept alive by drugs which were not available even 10 years ago. These
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Access to health care. (editorial)
American Family Physician
; Access to Health Care Piecemeal solutions will not cure the ills of the American health care system. Past efforts have left too many segments of our population without adequate access to basic health care and have done little to slow the surge in medical costs and the decline in public health. [1]
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The Health Care Mess - How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out
Journal of Public Health Policy
; Julius Richmond, Rashi Fein. The Health Care Mess - How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 294pp. $26-95 Editors' Note: We have recently reviewed two books that emphasize the increasing tendency to organize medical care on a commercial
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HEALTH CARE
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; HEALTH CARE Discipline required Monday, August 30, 2004 Thanks for giving front-page prominence to the General Accountability Office report that physician fees in the Milwaukee area are 33% higher than the average of 331 metro areas ("Medical care costlier here, study confirms," Aug. 24). This
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(Not at) home health care.(NEWS WATCH)(medical care)(Brief article)
Healthcare Financial Management
; (NOT AT) HOME HEALTH CARE: More than 1 million patients worldwide-including about 150,000 U.S. residents-spent a total of $60 billion to receive medical care in other countries, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle.
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Escaping America's Health Care Maze;By Shifting - and Hiding - Medical Costs, We're Wasting Billions of Dollars
The Washington Post
; IF MOST Americans - and most of my fellow doctors - could outline an ideal health care system for this country, it's a fair bet it would have the following characteristics: The system would provide access to good basic medical care for all; access would be for health care, not for the equal
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YOU DON'T WANT SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE THE CANADIAN (BAD) EXAMPLE
Roanoke Times & World News
; IT IS CLEAR that the U.S health care system is in serious trouble. Costs are rising rapidly, some 40 million Americans are without health insurance and both doctors and patients decry their loss of options and control. Single-payer health care systems have been proposed in a handful of states as
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Health care poverty.(health care services accessibility)
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
; This paper introduces and describes health care poverty. Underinsurance and its consequences for access to health care are highlighted. Definitions of underinsurance and its prevalence are presented. Groups that experience disproportionate barriers to obtaining medical care are identified.
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Health care database guards patient privacy.(Metropolitan Times)(If You Ask Me)
The Washington Times
; James Kelly suggests sinister consequences and grave violations of confidentiality concerning personal medical information because the Health Care Access and Cost Commission (HCACC) is collecting data from insurance companies and HMOs ( Marylanders losing medical care privacy, Aug. 1). Dr. Kelly's
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HEALTH CARE COSTS EXPECTED TO RISE 38% OVER NEXT FIVE YEARS, SAYS STATE AGENCY
The Journal Record
; How much health care inflation is in our future? Even with inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) at the lowest levels in more than 20 years, costs for medical care continue to rise at almost twice the rate. And the immediate future may see the rate of increase climbing higher and
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