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Health Care Reform and LTC: Part V
November 25, 2009 10:32 AM by Carol Kleinman

For patients, employers and payers to make well-informed health care decisions, they must have access to meaningful and easy-to-understand quality and cost data; such transparency is critical to overall health care reform. Strategies to involve patients Read More...

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Health Care Reform and LTC: Part II
October 15, 2009 2:56 PM by Carol Kleinman

Issues of long-term care have dominated public concern since President Clinton proposed his health care reform plan in 1993. Efforts towards a universal long-term care policy address priority areas of aging and disability in various ways such as the use Read More...

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Health Care and the Common Good
August 31, 2009 12:58 PM by Carol Kleinman

So, the basic debate in the U.S. over healthcare is not really about costs or the freedom to choose one's own doctor. The facts are clear: The World Health Organization rates the U.S. 37 th (!) in healthcare while we spend a much higher percentage of Read More...

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Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege? Part 1 - Pro
July 20, 2009 3:03 PM by Carol Kleinman

Once upon a time before the Military-Industrial-Government Complex, Americans were mostly rural and relied on direct sources of food, water, fuel, and shelter. Personal involvement in and responsibility for those needs has decreased with the transformation Read More...

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