Four ways communities are turning health care delivery on its head - Bangor Daily News
Philip Caper, M.D.When veteran print and TV journalist T.R. Reid visited Maine last fall, he claimed we could provide health care for everybody and do it for less money with better results. At 3:30 p.m. Sunday, MPBN will air his latest documentary, “U.S. Health Care: The Good News,” which shows how it can be done.
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/15/health/four-ways-communities-are-turning-health-care-delivery-on-its-head/print/
Universal Health Care: A Moral Obligation?
By Ronald Pies, MD
As a psychiatric physician for nearly thirty years, I am always surprised when I hear politicians claim that the U.S. health care system is “the best in the world.” To be sure, we are among the most advanced nations when it comes to medical technology, and we are second to none when it comes to the dedication of our doctors, nurses, and allied professionals. But if we examine indices of public health such as infant mortality and preventable deaths, we are far from having the best health care “system.” For example, according to a 2002 study by the Institute of Medicine, 18,000 Americans die every year because they don’t have health insurance. And in a 2008 Commonwealth Fund-supported study comparing “preventable deaths” in nineteen industrialized countries, the United States placed last.
http://www.hhropenforum.org/2012/02/universal-health-care-a-moral-obligation/
T.R. Reid talks about the good news in U.S. healthcare
Home > T.R. Reid talks about the good news in U.S. healthcare
NEW GLOUCESTER, ME – T.R. Reid, author of “The Healing of America” and documentary filmmaker, has once again joined forces with PBS to present a film looking at healthcare. “U.S. Health Care: The Good News,” a one-hour program scheduled to be broadcast nationwide on Feb. 16 on PBS (check local listings), examines communities in the United States that are providing high-quality care at lower costs. Reid spoke to Healthcare Finance News about his new documentary and healthcare issues facing the country.
Self-Insured Complicate Health Deal
By KATIE THOMAS
The Obama administration thought it had found a way to ease mounting objections to a requirement in the new health care act that all employers — including religiously affiliated hospitals and universities — offer coverage for birth control to women free of charge.
It would make the insurers cover the costs, rather than the organizations themselves.
But the administration announced the compromise plan before it had figured out how to address one conspicuous point: Like most large employers, many religiously affiliated organizations choose to insure themselves rather than hire an outside company to assume the risk.
Drowned girl's mom sought mental help, was rebuffed, relative says
A South Los Angeles mother who allegedly drowned her 1-year-old daughter and tried to drown her 5-year-old had sought psychiatric help but was rebuffed because she was an illegal immigrant, a relative said.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/relative-says-mom-tried-seeking-psychiatric-help-but-was-rebuffed.html
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