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Health Care Accountability

What can we do as the bureaucrats duke out the details of health care reform? Maybe Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, had it right. It's time for personal accountability.

Innovations in Healthcare

California announced recently that they're taking major steps to be a part of the change needed by the US healthcare system. They're launching a new "telehealth" system that will connect people in the state to the best healthcare regardless of location.

Show Your Support for Health Care Reform and Free Give-Away

Support for health care reform is growing. The current bill would end denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and to help curb costs, it would also require all Americans to get coverage and it has measures to try to reduce overall medical costs. The news is abuzz with new-found support for the bill.

Are We Opposed to Health Care Reform?

I keep hearing republicans say that American's are against health care reform. I know this doesn't represent my view. Does it represent yours? Other polls show that some of the opposition to the current bill is that it doesn't go far enough.

Why We Need Health Reform

This is a guest post by Dr. Joshua Freeman, a family physician, educator and author of the blog, Medicine and Social Justice. As we wait to see if the President’s health reform bill passes, it is a good time to review the actual core reasons why we need health reform. I believe that this will help ground us, and allow us to evaluate both whatever finally passes, and help us ignore the political posturing and maneuvering that distract us from them.

6 Myths Framing the Health Care Debate

This is a guest post from Dr. Doug Iliff, a family physician who practices in Topeka, KS. He writes about six myths that are framing the health care debate such as rationing care and consumer empowerment. Myth 1: President Obama is trying to pull a fast one. He wants to ration care based on medical evidence. In fact, medical services are rationed now in any number of ways - including, but not limited to, ability to pay, insurance approval, location, transportation, attitudes of relatives and competence of medical professionals.

Sensationalism

There's a lot of sensationalism in health care reform language: death panels, rationing care, government-run health care. These are all examples of sensationalism in the health care reform debate that's been causing a lot of angst. The thing is, they're based on misinformation.