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The best health care systems in the world are national systems. France has the best medical outcomes world wide. Our US military is cutting edge with research and innovations right now that the civilian medical people are learning from. One source of payment doesn't make care worse, it improves it and cuts out the non contributary elements of the private health insurance administration and profits. Private health insurance adds nothing to our medical care. They just take needed money out of the system.-MRP
Before sequestration’s automatic budget cuts kicked in, scientists warned that the proposed 8.2 across-the-board cut to the Nation Institute of Health could set back scientific innovation for a generation.
What is it? According to the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, it is the effects on poverty on health and well being.
By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program Protecting American jobs is one of the legacies of the Revolutionary war. Why is it not important to politicians today?
Nine organizers share their "stories of self," explaining how life experiences compelled them to take action.
Bernice Johnson Reagon -- a singer, song leader, civil rights activist and scholar -- was an integral part of the African American struggle for civil right
Five activists share organizing tactics they use to produce results, not just rhetoric.
By rejecting patent applications, developing countries have kept down the costs of much-needed medications. Can they continue to do so without harming efforts to develop new drugs?
Join the This Land Is Your Land Project by uploading your rendition of the Woody Guthrie song by way of YouTube and PBS.
By William Rivers-Pitt for Truth-Out "Do what you can within reach of your arm for it is part of a tapestry that reaches far and wide."
Because Big Pharma Pays Off Generic Drug Companies, Americans Spend Billions of Dollars More for Prescriptions
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In this 2001 Moyers Moment from Bill’s documentary Trade Secrets, Bill examines the many chemicals that have been introduced into our environment over the last few decades. To find out just how pervasive these chemicals were, Bill volunteered to get his blood tested.
It makes sense. If you improve the quantity – as well as the quality of care-centered communications, it is likely that patients will feel staff is more responsive, and better communication specifically about pain management and medications would increase those scores. However, care-centered conversations can often lose out to administrative and transactional dialog leaving little time to build relationships, emphathize, and engage in other more affective communications with encouragement and coaching. Another survey last week on communication, this one by Ponemon, found that outdated communications devices can make it harder to deliver effective patient care. AComputerWorld article notes: “Clinicians in the survey estimated that only 45% of each workday is spent with patients; the remaining 55% is spent communicating and collaborating with other clinicians and using EMRs and other clinical IT systems.” An infographic on the survey shows other highlights: Clinicians waste an average of 46 minutes each day due to the use of outdated technologies. The primary reason is the inefficiency of pagers (as cited by 52%).It takes 102 minutes to be discharged. About 37 minutes is spent waiting for doctors, specialists or others to respond with information necessary for a patient’s release.A lengthy discharge process costs the U.S. hospital industry more than $3.189 billion a year in lost revenue. MORE:http://epatientexperience.com/are-care-centered-conversations-the-key-to-success/?goback=%2Egde_2280818_member_241599108
By Gerald Friedman America’s health care system is collapsing, and we can blame the Economics profession. Most economists approach health care in the wrong way, viewing it as a commodity like shoes or the laptop on which I write. Instead, health care is an idiosyncratic commodity, subject to uncertainty and “asymmetric information” leading to destructive behavior. Trying to force health care into a box, treating it like other commodities, economists have promoted cost sharing, market competition, and insurance oversight of health care providers that have inflated the administrative burden while denying ever more Americans access. MORE:http://www.healthcare-now.org/the-unhappy-marriage-of-economics-and-health-care
ProPublica investigates a government program which subsidizes danegerous drugs for the elderly.
From jails to factories to streets to schools, the winning programs in a foundation's competition stretch the boundaries of what we normally think of as public health.
To create a functional, globally competitive & research-focused University which is not just an Ivory Tower, but responsive to the needs of the society, while delivering World-class education and Knowledge. Vision,Mission,Core and Values Philosophy: To seek Truth, teach Truth and preserve Truth. Motto: To Restore the Dignity of Man. Vision Statement: To create a functional, globally competitive & research-focused University which is not just an Ivory Tower, but responsive to the needs of the society, while delivering World-class education and Knowledge. Mission Statement: To place the University of Nigeria in the forefront of Research and development, Innovation, Knowledge Transfer and Human Resource Development in the global academic terrain, while promoting the core values which will ensure the restoration of the dignity of man.
Joining others to tackle systemic challenges can indeed make a difference. Learn how to get involved and share your own ideas.
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, Jeff Bauman’s image was seared into the American consciousness. An extremely graphic photo of Bauman being escorted in a wheelchair with most of his legs blown off quickly went viral.
There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens.
By EZRA KLEIN There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher.
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program helps communities create solutions that make it easier for people to be healthy in their own communities, focusing on specific factors that we know affect health, such as education and income.
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