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People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Book Review
Deadly Spin: How insurance companies use PR to fight reform
Book Review: If last year’s attacks on the health-care reform law seemed familiar, it’s because you’ve seen same the tactics before, writes Wendell Potter in his new book “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”.
Autism’s False Prophets – Book Review
In Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Dr. Offit examines the the theories of those who hold that vaccines cause autism.
Healthcare Reform in Washington state – Book Review
Like the rest of the country, Washington State has a health-care crisis: costs are out of control, quality of care is uneven, and many state residents go without coverage. In “Dear Governor: About That Healthcare Crisis“, Edmonds editor and publisher D.J. Wilson has put together a highly readable collection of articles by 20 people with [...]
Tom Daschle on health-care reform – Book Review
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Tom Daschle to head up the Department of Health and Human Services and to be his point man on health-care reform suggests that, despite the economic turmoil and the challenges of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the incoming administration plans to move ahead on health-care reform quickly. First in [...]
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