Article: Huge uninsured population faces long waits for care.(Health Care: Private Intervention)(Interview)

Article: Is a modest health care system possible?(80% Less Energy)(Critical essay)
Synthesis/Regeneration;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The health care system in the US is generally regarded...activists as over-scaled and inefficient. Health care consumes nearly 15% of the US GDP...population. Moreover, the provision of health care services has a relatively small effect...

Article: Health care reform: what happened this year, what will happen next year.
Management Quarterly;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ...The health care reform debate will continue when the...January. This article will examine why health care will continue to be a Congressional...America, and details NRECA's role in the health care reform debate. What happened to health...

Article: Feds put brakes on fast-growing home health care. (investigation of Medicare fraud)(Health Care Special Report: House Calls)(Industry Overview)
Los Angeles Business Journal;  November 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Home health care, once the province of small, community-bas...year - and one that is dominated by health care giants and hospitals. Driven by cost-conscio...home care is now an integral part of health care for millions of Americans, especially...

Article: Health Care Systems
U*X*L Complete Health Resource;      700+ words ...Health Care Systems The issue of health care and health care reform is a topic of growing debate in the United States. Health care touches everyone. There are families who worry about their children and aging relatives; employers who must provide...

Article: The ethical foundations of health care reform. (includes related article on faith groups and health care) (Cover Story)
The Christian Century;  June 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Our health care system contains much of which we should...must preserve its virtues. Yet our health care system is seriously flawed. It fails...population (about 40 million people) from health care insurance; it leaves another one-seventh...

Article: Health care resource prioritization and rationing: why is it so difficult?
Social Research;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...THE PRIORITIZATION OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES AND RATIONING IS A paradigm...idea of prioritizing and rationing health care resources so troubling and controversial...ambivalent and inconsistent about health care rationing. On the one hand many...

Article: Universal health care in Massachusetts: setting the standard for national reform.
Fordham Urban Law Journal;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...I. INTRODUCTION Health care reform in the United States has proven to be...steadily worsen. The extent of the national health care crisis is reflected in the fact that although health care annually consumes some sixteen percent of the...

Article: Health Care Injects $18.3 Billion Annually into Middle Tennessee Economy; Impact Study Findings Show One in Five Jobs Related to Nashville Health Care Industry.
Business Wire;  February 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville's health care industry has a total economic impact...and 154,800 jobs can be attributed to health care, 22 percent of the region's non-farm...study released today by the Nashville Health Care Council (NHCC). Over the past 10 years...

Article: Health care markets. (medical care spending in Montana)
Montana Business Quarterly;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Health Care Costs Increased spending on health care is determined by increased prices of health care, by growing population which leads to greater use of health care resources, and by more intense use of health care resources by current consumers...

Article: U.S. health care in conflict -- part II: the challenges of balancing cost quality and access. (Policy).(consumers and insurers negatively affecting health care industry)
Physician Executive;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...MANY HEALTH CARE consumers of the 21st century are becoming...involved in making choices about the health care they receive. Three characteristics...consumers from traditional consumers of health care services: 1. Cash 2. College 3. Computers...

Article: Employee payments for health care services.
Monthly Labor Review;  November 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Employees covered by employer-provided health care plans usually must pay some portion of their health care costs. Employees' costs (or out-of-pocket...and the specific provisions of the health care plan. A family of four with $7,000 in...

Article: Money, ads give health care top political billing
AP Online;  July 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Health care is returning as a campaign issue, with...Democratic-leaning organizations called Health Care for America Now on Tuesday was announcing...million campaign to promote affordable health care coverage for all. The group is spending...

Article: The Health Care E-volution.
Risk & Insurance;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...New health care Web sites are creating cyberspace partnerships...e-businesses focusing on delivering health care directly into the hands of employees...the growing legions of direct-access health care sites include: The Standard Insurance...

Article: Newspapers foretell health care's future. (Health Care Trends).
Physician Executive;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...* Health Care Trends * Consumers Push For Sensible Health Care System * Physicians Rebel Against PPMCs and HMOs...January 1999) of newspaper articles addressing various health care issues. Newspaper contents reflect the changing market...