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Calling the Health Bill a “Job-Killer” is “Inflammatory Rhetoric”

A lot of thought goes into the naming of new legislation. Calling the health bill the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act hits on the essential goals of health care reform—medical security and financial savings. So the GOP’s proposed law... Read...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 2:53 PM by Health Beat
Cancer Breakthrough?

In an Opinion column on CNN, Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, M.P.H., a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy & Clinical Practice and the author of Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health" (Beacon Press......

Published Wed, Jan 19 2011 11:25 AM by Health Beat
A Non-physician Who Teaches Doctors: “I Regard the Medical Profession with Awe”

Below , a story by Lawrence Dyche from Pulse: Stories from the Heart of Medicine. I wish that more people like Dyche observed residents, taught them, and learned from them. I’m sure that most residents would appreciate the encounter. As... Read More....

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 8:20 PM by Health Beat
Health Bill Will Help, Not Hinder, Small Business

The war of words over health reform is increasingly focused on how the legislation will impact small business and employment. The day before the House voted—in a meaningless act of political theater—to repeal the “job-killing” health law, the White House...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 8:46 AM by Health Beat
A Reversal of Fortune for End-of-Life Planning

After all the ridiculous fear-mongering by Sarah Palin and her Conservative compatriots about government funding of “death panels,” Congress dropped a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning from the health reform legislation passed last March. But...

Published Wed, Jan 05 2011 9:57 AM by Health Beat
Why We Cannot Afford to Cut Domestic Spending in 2011

On the first day of 2011, Princeton economist Paul Krugman ran an eye-opening chart in his New York Times column, illustrating the relationship between economic growth and unemployment. The horizontal axis shows annual growth rates of real GDP [after...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 8:08 AM by Health Beat

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Calling the Health Bill a “Job-Killer” is “Inflammatory Rhetoric”

Cancer Breakthrough?

A Non-physician Who Teaches Doctors: “I Regard the Medical Profession with Awe”

Health Bill Will Help, Not Hinder, Small Business

A Reversal of Fortune for End-of-Life Planning

Why We Cannot Afford to Cut Domestic Spending in 2011