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Just because a test is newer and fancier doesn't necessarily mean it's better

Writing in the Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke reports on, "Safe, simple health tests you can do at home." His story gets at one of the many drivers of our excalating health care cost. He begins:

Why I’m Leaving the Senate

Indiana Senator Even Bayh explains why extreme partisanship the resulting gridlock result in nothing getting done in D.C. The crisis in our government has forced him to seek another way to make a difference in the world. He writes:

Do We Really Want the Status Quo on Health Care?

In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristoff does a pretty good job of summing up the options for health reform:

Did Americans get any healthier over past decade?

Reporting for the Associated Press, Mike Stobbe reports on 2010 health goals. Here's how he begins:

About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010.

So how did we do?

Oregon sales tax proposal would fund universal health care

Peter Wong and Tracy Lowe, writing for the Salem Statesman-Journal, report that the State's Senate Health Care Committee heard a proposal to create a state sales tax solely to fund health care for all Oregonians. Here's how the story begins:

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