by Rick Ray | Jun 15, 2009 | Learn
Sounding a lot like John Kizthaber, George Mason University economics professor Tyler Cowen wrote the following for the New York Times (June 13th, 2009): Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending MEDICARE expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget, yet the...
by Rick Ray | Jun 14, 2009 | Learn
This article, from today’s New York Times, needs no introduction. Here’s an excerpt: Roughly $2.5 trillion is at stake, the amount the nation spends each year on health care, nearly a fifth of the American economy. How that money is divided up — or...
by We Can Do Better | Jun 5, 2009 | Blog, Learn, Videos
[vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/5017572 441 298″ width=”580″] Archimedes Movement executive director, Liz Baxter, is joined by Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council members Mike Grady and David Pollack. This conversation includes an...
by Rick Ray | May 14, 2009 | Learn
In his blog yesterday, former labor secretary Robert Reich demystified the recent headlines about Social Security and Medicare: What are we to make of yesterday’s report from the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds that Social Security will...
by Rick Ray | Apr 21, 2009 | Learn
Powerful story in today’s New York Times about the role of community and friendship in long term health. Here’s an excerpt: In the quest for better health, many people turn to doctors, self-help books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful...
by Rick Ray | Apr 15, 2009 | Learn
This article addressing how we approach end-of-life care appeared last year in the New York Times. It’s one of those makes-you-think articles, and it includes some nifty graphs. Here’s how it begins: Not long ago Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician who pulls...
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