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Nursing Shortage Looms Due To Shortages Of Faculty
Just as looming physician shortages and ballooning medical expenses threaten to bring down the entire American health care system, images of other serious shortfalls in numbers of nurses sharpen into focus. [Read article]
The Coming Doctor Shortage
Let’s say it all works out and we welcome the supposed 45 million or so individuals without healthcare insurance into the fold and they receive the preventive care and primary care that we are told will solve the problems of American healthcare. [Read article]
Health Care Lobbyists Boost Key Players In Debate
As the debate intensifies in Congress, health care sector contributions to lawmakers on the committees overseeing the massive change to the nation's health care system are on the upswing — rising 8% between the first and second quarter of the year. [Read article]
How Congress Might Change The Way You Buy Health Insurance
All the reform bills would establish a nationwide system of government-run insurance exchanges. [Read article]
Baucus-Grassley Bipartisan Partnership Frays Under Health Reform Pressures
While sensitive to their respective parties’ political imperative, Baucus and Grassley frequently have charted a middle course. With so much uncertainty about the fate of health care legislation this fall, the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the Baucus-Grassley relationship will be put to its ultimate test. [Read article]
Yes, We Can Afford Health-Care Reform
Of course we can. The relevant question is whether this is a productive use of resources. [Read article]
Obama May Get More Specific About Health Overhaul
Obama has talked a lot about health care lately, but some allies say he has been too vague. Now he's thinking of throwing more details and personal weight into the debate. [Read article]
Changing Health Care by Steps
Years passed before America accepted the concept of Medicare, and any health reform approved today will be only an incremental step toward change. Passing a health care bill will be no easier than in previous decades. [Read article]
Community Health Centers Seen As Source For Savings
The report, Using Primary Care to Bend the Curve, found that increasing the number of patients who regularly use community health centers could save more than $212 billion over a 10-year period, and potentially tens of billions more if coupled with other proposals now being considered on Capitol Hill. [
