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What Will We Tell the Doctors?

{ Posted on Apr 07 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Entrepreneurship, Health care costs, health care reform, medicaid, Uncategorized
"The practice of medicine was accepted to be a chancy way to make a living, and nobody expected a doctor to get rich, least of all the doctors themselves."  - Lewis Thomas, The Youngest Science, p. 4 (Penguin, 1995 edition, ...Read More »

Drugs, the US solution for all the pain

{ Posted on Mar 20 2011 by Divorced one like Bush }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, depression, Great Recession, Health care costs, substitution effect, Uncategorized
By: Daniel Becker   Just a little something that came across my desk. As you read it, think about the concept: War on Drugs. “In the United States, the therapeutic use of opioids has exploded as witnessed by the increased sales ...Read More »

Still fixing the fixed, fixed healthcare system

{ Posted on Mar 09 2011 by Divorced one like Bush }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Bankruptcy, Health care costs, health care reform, Single Payer, Uncategorized
by Daniel Becker I posted in 7/2009 on the issue of fixing our healthcare system based on the Massachusetts model. The first was Massachusetts is fixing the fixed healthcare system.   The second was a followup to the first:  Fixing the fixing. ...Read More »

Medical costs are going up; we have to cut our insurance

{ Posted on Feb 28 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, Uncategorized
Some catching up on health care reform progress makes sense as we keep in mind these posts from Beat the Press Dean Baker writes:Second, the story of massive huge future budget deficits has little to do with aging. It is ...Read More »

The National Health

{ Posted on Feb 02 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, asymmetrical information, Health care costs, health care reform, Inequality, just life, opportunity costs, Uncategorized
I wasn't going to mention Melissa Mia Hall's death here—this is economics and politics, not sf—but now it is clear that, as usual, there is an overlap:If she had seen the doctor, most likely he would have suspected more than ...Read More »

The Rich Stay Healthy, the Sick Stay Poor

{ Posted on Jan 02 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, economic development, Health care costs, health care thoughts, human capital, just life, safety net
Health and Economic Development Primer in one easy lesson (via SocProf's Twitter feed):This is not surprising to see the contrast between the prosperous (at least until now) areas, in green where chronic illnesses prevail but are diseases tied to aging, ...Read More »
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