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Health Care Reform Articles - July 8, 2011

uly 7, 2011

How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart





When Juliet Jacobs found out she had lung cancer, she was terrified, but realized that her hope lay in getting the best treatment medicine could offer. So she got a second opinion, then a third. In February of 2010, she ended up at Duke University, where she entered a research study whose promise seemed stunning.


Mass. hospitals may lose $322m

US deficit talks target Medicare

By Tracy Jan
Globe Staff / July 8, 2011
WASHINGTON - Massachusetts teaching hospitals would lose $322 million, or about two-thirds of the federal dollars they receive for the training of medical residents, under a bipartisan proposal to tamp down the rising costs of Medicare and reduce the federal deficit.




A little more revenue could go a long way

By Published: July 7

Do progressives care about reducing the national debt? Of course they do, no matter what the White House might believe.
“We think that obviously there are some Democrats who don’t feel as strongly about deficit reduction as [President Obama] does,” senior adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday at a breakfast with reporters and columnists. But that’s not obvious at all. It isn’t even true.



This video from last month's mid-year APHA meeting about framing the health care reform message is really worth taking the time to watch.

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