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The Crisis of the Uninsured: A Brief Roadmap
Health care in the United States is in crisis. Even as improvements in medical care continue to make miracles happen, millions of Americans have difficulty receiving even the most prosaic forms of...
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Interview with Noam Chomsky: Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of...
Noam Chomsky, a retired professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has published extensively on politics since the Vietnam War. A strong advocate for healthcare reform, he...
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Interview with Gail Wilensky, Former Medicare and Medicaid Director
Gail Wilensky, PhD, was Administrator of the Health Care FinancingAdministration (now CMS) from 1990 to 1992, where she directedMedicare and Medicaid programs. She is currently a Senior Fellow at...
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Getting the Boss to Pay: Making Employer Mandates a Viable System
In order for an employer mandate to become a viable solution to the problem of America’s lack of affordable health care, it must accommodate the financial limitations of small businesses and low-wage...
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Clinton’s Failure: Lessons from the National Health Security Plan
Why did a program with such promise crash so suddenly? The answer lies in the strategic game played by the political parties and interest groups to sway public opinion. America, the land of freedom and...
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Interview with Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK)
Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) introduced the Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act in May of 2007. A general surgeon and a cancer survivor himself, Senator Coburn has worked on a variety of...
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The Presidential Candidates on Domestic Healthcare
Costly insurance schemes, poor coverage, lack of access to quality care, and 46 million uninsured in 2007 alone are but a few glaring problems with America’s current healthcare situation. Ranked an...
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Interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ’78 was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, after serving as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island and then as the state’s Attorney General. In these roles, he fought organized...
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Health Care Reform: Learning from Massachusetts and California
Even with subsidies, the California plan would cover only 70 percent of California’s 6.5 million uninsured, and by the fifth year, the program would exceed its budget by $300 million, a deficit that...
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Interview with Dr. Howard Forman, Founder of Yale University’s MD/MBA Program
Dr. Howard Forman is the founder and director of Yale University’s MD/MBA program. As a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Management, Dr. Forman...
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