Health Care Reform Articles - April 29, 2011

The Left's Stealth Budget Plan

David A. GrahamWed Apr 27, 11:36 pm ET

NEW YORK – Unlike unpopular budget plans by Obama and Paul Ryan, the People’s Budget saves Social Security, jacks up taxes on the rich, and produces a surplus within a decade. David A. Graham explains why the plan is flying under the radar. 



http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/13743_liberalsstealthbudgetsolutionraisestaxesonrichsavessocialsecurity/print

America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System

Even if Obama's overhaul works as planned, there will still be 23 million Americans lacking health insurance in 2019.

http://www.otherwords.org/articles/america_needs_a_single_payer_health_care_system

Progress in medicine comes slowly.  Handwashing was first shown to prevent infections caused by doctors by Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847! - PC

APRIL 28, 2011, 9:10 PM

Speaking Up for Patient Safety, and Survival

By TINA ROSENBERG

On Tuesday, I wrote about a new technological system that might help hospitals to accurately track whether health care workers are washing their hands, and remind them to do so in real time. The reason hospitals might want to spend the money to install such an expensive fix is that so far, very few hospitals have been able to get their hand-washing rates above 50 percent.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/speaking-up-for-patient-safety-and-survival/?pagemode=print