Texas healthcare system withering under Gov. Perry
The governor and presidential hopeful has said the state can manage on its own, without President Obama's overhaul. But more than a quarter of Texans lack insurance, the highest rate in the nation.
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times6:00 PM PDT, September 8, 2011
Reporting from San Angelo, Texas
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-perry-healthcare-20110908,0,4011616,print.story
US doctors earn much more than peers, study says
Posted Sept. 09, 2011, at 5:23 a.m.
WASHINGTON — U.S. doctors earn more than their European, Canadian and Australian counterparts, with American orthopedic surgeons outpacing their peers by a wider margin than primary-care doctors, a study found.
Primary-care doctors in the U.S. made an average of $187,000 in 2008, according to the study in the journal Health Affairs. Orthopedic surgeons made $442,000. That rate was more than double what the surgeons in Australia, Canada, France and Germany made. British orthopedists made on average about 73 percent as much as their U.S. counterparts.
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A Bipartisan Move to Tackle Benefits Programs
By JACKIE CALMES and ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — In a significant shift driven by bipartisan concern about the looming long-term debt, Republicans and Democrats are no longer fighting over whether to tackle the popular entitlement programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — but over how to do it.
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