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Knowledge@Wharton	Major Health Care Reform Under President Bush Remains Elusive Three of the chief health-care challenges facing the United States are: finding a way to provide coverage for the millions of uninsured, reforming Medicare, and setting up a prescription-drug plan for the elderly. The White House is likely to make headway on only the third of these in the next two years.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Catherine Arnst	The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs? How making primary-care physicians the center of America's health-care system could drive down costs.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong	The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information.
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst	Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists.
Salon.com August 23, 2000 Jake Tapper	Patient politics Will healthcare be the albatross around George W. Bush's neck? Al Gore thinks so.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow	Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market.
Managed Care April 2001 Charles Downey	EDTUs: Last Line of Defense Against Costly Inpatient Stays Many hospitals already have some variety of emergency diagnostic and treatment units. HMOs and physicians should welcome this level of care...
American Family Physician March 15, 2004	Medicine and Society According to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau in September 2003, 1 43.6 million Americans did not have health insurance in 2002, a figure that represents an increase of 2.4 million persons from 2001
Salon.com September 22, 2000 Hal Millard	Geriatrics to the rescue A South Carolina clinic is offering good healthcare to the uninsured and a meaningful life to retired doctors. Can the idea spread to the rest of the country?
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 Grow & Berner	Fresh Pain for the Uninsured As doctors and hospitals turn to GE, Citi, and smaller rivals to finance patient care, the sick pay much more.
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Managed Care November 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	The Uninsured: How Health Plans Can Do Well By Doing Good While health plans battle for market share, 38 million Americans are uninsured. At least some could be signed up, but pursuing them is not without risk...
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation.
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Salon.com October 14, 1999 Dawn MacKeen	Woe is HMO Proponents of liability legislation argue that the only way to change managed care's behavior is to threaten it with lawsuits.
Fast Company Elizabeth Segran	Doctor Visits Are So 2014 For scrappy startups, going up against the health care system sometimes seems like an impossible task. But fortunately, major players in the industry, such as McKesson, are pushing for change as well
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette	Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors.
HBS Working Knowledge July 12, 2006 Roger Thompson	Competition the Cure for Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. So when he discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers healthcare, people listen.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Medicare's Big Experiment The coming changes to Medicare aim to cut costs while improving care. Sound familiar?
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Managed Care August 2000 Carey Lee Straetz	Managing Medicaid Rolls Often State-by-State Affair Despite the strong economy, Medicaid enrollment may be slowly rising after a three-year decline. The challenges for serving this population are huge.
Salon.com January 21, 2000 Dena Bunis	Making health an issue Clinton continues to push for reforms.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Genevieve Ressel	Newsletter Vaccine Manufacturer Expecting Delays in Distribution of Fluvirin... U.S. Census Bureau Report Confirms Rising Number of Uninsured Americans... CDC Reminds Physicians to Consider West Nile Virus in Pregnant Women... etc.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Doctor Is Killing You ... Financially What the doctor does has a big effect on how much health care costs.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
Managed Care April 2005 John Carroll	Can Managed Care Programs Rein in Medicaid's Runaway Budgets? Cadillac or Yugo care for the poor? Fee-for-service or managed care? The states have a lot on their minds as the Medicaid monster grows and grows.
Managed Care December 2007	Privately Insured Use Emergency Room Less A recently issued brief from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation seeks to characterize and analyze persons who frequently, or infrequently, use hospital emergency department.
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Nussbaum & Tirrell	Health Reform Is Dead. Let's Go Shopping Thriving insurers and hospital chains may start to gobble up competitors weakened by the recession.
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BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Dean Foust	Weaker Vital Signs At Hospitals The number of patients in default on their bills is off the charts
BusinessWeek May 20, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Health-Care Reform: Who Pays Is So Taboo Neither Congress nor the White House will endorse any of the options: raise taxes, ration care, or cut payments to doctors, hospitals, and drugmakers.
Managed Care February 2008 John Carroll	Move to Mandatory Coverage Wouldn't Ensure Universality Compared to the existing state of affairs, there's a lot to like in mandatory coverage, but the Massachusetts experiment is a lesson to not expect miracles.
Salon.com September 26, 2002 Carina Chocano	Same old mish-"MAS*H"! Stat! On "MDs" and "Presidio Med," rogue, renegade and maverick doctors search for a cure for HMOs.
AskMen.com Jon Skindzier	The Everyman Dream Health Plan This article lays out a dream health care plan that has been composed of the best individual elements from different systems around the world. However, not all of it may be practical.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2012 Jill Wechsler	Costs and Benefits of Health Reform Will expanded markets and accountable care organizations offset higher rebates, added fees, and closer scrutiny of marketing and prices?
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 James Warren	Commentary: General Practitioners Need to Make More Money These doctors are grossly underpaid compared with specialists. A federal panel wants to reduce the discrepancy.
Managed Care May 2003 John Carroll	Is 1 the Answer?: More Calling for Single-Payer System Most would not want health care to go through such a major change unless it became a question of survival. Many say that's just where we are.
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