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    • House debates nature of rights - OregonLive.com

      Posted by Jeff from Oregon Live

      Pretty fascinating rights-based framed debate in the Oregon legislature today on whether or not Health Care is a Right that state residents have inherently. Democrats argued that the right to quality medical care is an innate right where as Republicans did not. Oregon voters will get to decide the issue in November.

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    • Experts Tally Iraq War's Health Cost

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

      Few saw it coming, but six years into combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care providers are overwhelmed by the demands of returning veterans suffering from mental health stress or traumatic brain injury.

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    • Warnings Over Privacy of U.S. Health Network

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      As Bush follows industry's push to put all of our health records online - no one competent is in place to secure the data. Even the policies that might be used to do so haven't really been thought out. Microsoft and IBM will push for a big piece of this action. How about privacy first, networking second?

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    • Momentum grows for universal health care

      Posted by Jeff from Market Watch

      "There really is a kind of critical mass that is being reached and there's a moment I think where people stop saying are you for universal health care or not, and they say what sort of plan are you for," said Leif Wellington Haase, a health policy analyst at the Century Foundation, a New York think tank.

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    • U.S. Employers Look Offshore for Healthcare

      Posted by Billbar from Los Angeles Times

      After going overseas to outsource everything from manufacturing to customer services, American businesses — pressed by rising healthcare costs — are looking offshore for medical benefits as well. A growing number of employers that fund their own health insurance plans are looking into sending ailing employees abroad for surgeries that in the U.S. cost tens of thousands of dollars more.

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    daveatlarge comments on:

    New Survey: 82% Of Americans Think Health Care Needs Major Overhaul

    Towards the end of last year ( I work in health and wellness) and am a huge fan of high quality natural health products and supplementation. Anyway, I received an email from one of my colleagues , a poll rating health care systems from around the world. U.S. came in dead last! So this is an understatement. Thanks.

     

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    3:59 pm 8/31/08
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    New Survey: 82% Of Americans Think Health Care Needs Major Overhaul

    I agree completley. The health care system should be changed.

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    2:21 pm 8/12/08
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    Sick orphan baby finds a family in Miami NICU

    "I can’t adopt this baby," she told the surgeon. "She’s got too many medical problems, I’ll never be able to take care of her."

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    9:21 pm 7/13/08
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