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| | | July 04, 2008 | Health Care Reform | | CodeBlueNow! explores common ground; cross-sector platforms emerging | By Mike Magee, MD  Will this be the season of Health Care Reform? With the economy swirling, and the current approach to health care in the U.S. arguably a deeply embedded complication, is it possible to imagine and implement a fundamentally different approach to care that promotes goodness and fairness, quality, access and choice? And can this be done without cues, waiting lines, and "manage-mania"?
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| | July 02, 2008 | Health Care Reform | | A valuable resource for both teachers and students | By Mike Magee, MD  Three things are happening to health education information these days. First, it's going electronic and virtual. Second, it's uniting various audiences, bringing them together, often in new and interactive ways, to inform, educate and bridge. Third, it's changing the power equation, emphasizing that we are all teachers and we are all students.
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| Story of the Week | July 02, 2008 | | Blending economics and psychology on behalf of health | By Mike Magee, MD Despite the great strides that we have made in health care over the last 50 years, we find ourselves in 2008 with an interesting problem: There is growing acknowledgement that human behavior has been unable to maintain pace with scientific understanding. When it first became obvious that we as a population were not seizing the opportunities for health that were right in front of our noses -- like not smoking, staying on medication for high blood pressure to avoid stroke, and maintaining healthy weights and exercise to avoid diabetes -- economists felt more information and mild financial incentives would do the trick. That hasn’t worked as planned and now the relatively new field of behavioral economics -- the marriage of conventional economics and psychology – is pondering this issue. | | |
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|  It's a major problem today. A lot of people who get sick are unable to afford health care."  Hard for the insured, too  Keep health care private!  Work to stay healthy  Testing is important  Please keep it affordable  Everybody deserves a chance  | Dr. Tom Linden's Health Blog | | |  'Mountains Beyond Mountains' Nurses and Doctors Together for the Good of the Patients Ain’t Nobody’s Fault But Mine Maternal Depression: You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover The State of Employer-Sponsored Coverage The Physician as Grim Reaper – The Ultimate Oxymoron Yearning for Universal Coverage Is Not Universal Spending More But Getting Less Prevention Through Affordable Access Probiotics: Hope or Hype? |
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