JANUARY 2009 1/31/09 (Blogspot)How
the Clinton Health Care Plan Was Killed. Yesterday Paul Krugman, whose column in the
NY Times is the first one I look for every morning (in print or
online), wrote: "Mr. Obama really, really doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Bill
Clinton, whose health care push failed politically partly because he moved too
slowly." It's ironic that the Clinton team should be blamed for
moving too slowly, because Ira Magaziner expressed determination to move quickly
as a speaker in December 1992 on a panel I attended. Magaziner announced that the
group drafting the health care legislation planned to get a bill through during
the honeymoon period, "by June". Read Post.
1/30/09 (HuffPost) UK Study: More Rest Means Fewer Doctor ErrorsComment BBC News has a medical staffing hours story today with implications for U.S. medical care. Residents on a shorter 48 hour/week limit made 33 percent fewer medical errors than those on a schedule of up to 56 hours a week. Sample size of NHS doctors was small but the results were significant. Thanks to Dr. Elisabeth Paice....Read Post
1/25/09
(HuffPost) BBC Show on U.S. Health Care Unavailable in
USA21 Comments My sister Brigid Marlin lives in
the UK and a few days ago was watching a BBC program on health care in the
United States. Brigid is not a public affairs junkie so I was interested when
she sent me an email reporting that the program was a shocking portrayal... Read
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Strategic Issues in Health Care - USA v. UK
PowerPoint presented February 7, 2006 to the London Deanery of the NHS/University of London. Click to open.
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