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We found some death panels. They didn’t come from health reform.
Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
November 11th, 2010
The Simpson-Bowles plan leaves $15 billion of free money on the table by not raising alcohol taxes. In addition to the revenue, higher taxes would improve health and safety and reduce crime.
November 9th, 2010
The GOP has promised its base that it will defund the individual mandate, and it has promised health insurance companies that it will strengthen the mandate. Something has to give.
November 6th, 2010
The eradication of rinderpest and other global public goods.
October 25th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability, US healthcare reform
Broken eyeglasses underscore the weird challenge of caring for a disabled person.
October 17th, 2010
There were two related and important developments in addiction medicine this week. Walter Ling has a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that a buprenorphine implant is effective at reducing drug craving and use in opioid addicted patients, and the FDA has approved an extended-release formulation of naltrexone for the treatment [...]
October 16th, 2010
An amateur report card on the progress of the US health IT plan.
October 11th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Campaign 2012, Republican Party, US healthcare reform, Watching Conservatives
America’s health insurance companies seem to believe, along with Republicans, that they can screw up health care reform and get the voters to blame the Democrats for it. Maybe they’re right.
September 23rd, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, US healthcare reform
Humanity and social change, expressed through a boring form letter.
September 3rd, 2010
The news service of the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a report out on psychological trauma among Iraqis. What Iraqis have gone through over the past 40 years rivals the suffering of any other people in the world, but overall, things actually look less bleak in terms of Iraq’s mental health [...]
