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Summary | Health Care Reform: Week of December 12

Sat, 12/11/2010 - 17:09 — Dave Culver
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Health & Environment

3 New Items including:

  • Health Care: The Disquieting Truth
  • Will States Lead on Single-Payer Healthcare Reform?

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Don Wright

Health Care: The Disquieting Truth, Arnold Relman, New York Review of Books

  • Tracking Medicine: A Researcher’s Quest to Understand Health Care by John E. Wennberg, Oxford University Press, 319 pp., $29.95
  • Health Insurance costs going up, and reformers won’t admit it

Arizona Strikes Again, Gail Collins, New York Times | NY

  • Let us revisit the matter of pulling the plug on grandma.
  • It came to mind when I was talking to Flor Felix, whose husband, Francisco, a 32-year-old truck driver with four kids, was denied a liver transplant because the Arizona Legislature had yanked funds for it out of a state Medicaid program

 

Will States Lead on Single-Payer Healthcare Reform? Christopher Hayes, The Nation
Will a proposed bipartisan amendment to the healthcare bill that would allow states to create an alternative healthcare system, create a loophole that will allow states to lead the fight for single-payer healthcare?

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