ACP, AMA and Health Care Reform…15 Years Later

Will organized medicine lead or spoil? By Mike Magee From 1990 to 1997, I was in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital and Jefferson Medical College. This gave me a front row seat of what I called the Medical School Wars – the highly publicized battle for market share between the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, […]

Poverty and Health

How higher wages and improved education could lower health care costs Growing up in the 1950s, with a physician father who saw patients in an office attached to our house, I saw health care practiced every day. My father was as much a counselor and coach as he was a clinician and scientist – helping […]

Health and Petroleum

Yes, there’s a link between the two and it’s worth thinking about Anyone who has followed my Health Politics programs over the last few years knows that I’ve done a lot of research on our most precious resource — water — and how it affects virtually every aspect of our lives. In the process of […]

GM Goes Full Circle on Employer-Based Health Care

An aging corporate giant points us in a new health-care direction It’s probably fair to say that as General Motors goes, so goes employer-based health care in the United States. After all, GM’s 1950 agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW) was the first to build extensive health care and retiree benefits into its basic […]

States focusing on Health Care Policy

But will the nation? With the Iowa caucuses just around the corner, presidential candidates are increasingly camped out in the state. And the state is greeting the process with open arms. HealthCommentary.org is there in part through the efforts of Atul Nakhasi and Greg Baker at the University of Iowa. They are the student leaders […]

Tell the Candidates What You Think

The Healthy Voices project gives you a chance to express your opinions Want to express your opinion on health care to the presidential candidates? It’s easy if you participate in Health Commentary’s “Healthy Voices” project: Using your computer’s webcam, simply upload your video thoughts to us and we’ll forward them to the candidates. We’re collecting […]

Out of the Hospital, Into the Home

If Tech is going to transform Health it needs to think outside the box A couple of weeks ago, the tech giants gathered in San Francisco for the Annual Web 2.0 Summit. But if you closed your eyes, you’d have thought you were at a health care meeting. And at the head of the table was […]

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