by Liz Baxter | Apr 16, 2012 | Learn, Uncategorized
An opinion piece from the New York Times states: We don’t know what it costs to deliver health care to individual patients, much less how those costs compare to the outcomes achieved. Authors Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter are currently working with several health...
by Liz Baxter | Apr 13, 2012 | Learn
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, wrote a blog posted in the Huffington Post this week, stating: April is National Minority Health Month, a time to raise awareness about the well-documented health disparities that continue to affect racial...
by Rick Ray | Apr 13, 2012 | Learn
“I want to help my patients not need my services,” Dr. Fox said as he chopped rosemary for a mustard-crusted seared lamb loin. “I’d love to be put out of work.” “This isn’t neurosurgery,” Dr. Eisenberg said as he whacked a garlic clove with the cleaver. “This is...
by Liz Baxter | Mar 30, 2012 | Act, Learn
Oregon will have two CO-OPs forming in Oregon, after news of federal loans awarded to Oregon’s Health CO-OP. Together with CCO’s and the Exchange, there is a lot brewing to transform how Oregonians access and purchase insurance and get better care, and...
by Rick Ray | Mar 29, 2012 | Learn
Timothy Egan, who writes “on American politics and life, as seen from the West,” has a great Opinionator piece in The New York Times this week. Here’s an excerpt: Something’s amiss. A third of all American adults — check, it just went up to 35.7...
by Liz Baxter | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog, Learn
For those who want to understand the different and varied legal questions argued before the Supreme Court this week, the NY Times put together a pretty good primer for taking a closer look at the constitutional questions that will be decided. It is complicated and...
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