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Healthcare debate: Al Franken at his grass roots best

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Al Franken ably handles a “taxed enough already” crowd on healthcare debate topics … democratic process at its best … the frontrow presence of a 90 y.o. lady draws some focus on how young folks resent being saddled with future debt to pay for current payouts – no one seems to take note or care [...]

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echoblog: Top healthcare economists frame long-term debate(s) now and to come

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by wstera2 via Flickr pointer to: Bloomberg Economics Radio – two top healthcare economics experts amicably discuss (.mp3) the current reform efforts – both agree the mendacity and outright lies are deeply poisoning the debate. The first main issue is the so-called “uninsured issue” which most other countries have resolved (simply, everyone deserves to [...]

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echoblog: Esther Dyson promotes Health 2.0 in the FT

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by rexhammock via Flickr pointer to: Information technology investor and member of the pioneering “PGP-10″ personal genome volunteer Esther Dyson has a great article on the Health 2.0 movement in – the mainstream of all mainstream media – the Financial Times.

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Yeah, healthcare 1.0 reform is a clusterf**k

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by arbyreed via Flickr Was sort of holding my breath with fingers and toes crossed these past few weeks, but now am given up.  Much like team Obama’s efforts to regulate the financial services industry (only slightly less of a clusterf**k than healthcare), its a slow motion trainwreck where the average taxpayer just ends [...]

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Joe Pantoliano: “Insurance will cover my heart but not my brain?”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image via Wikipedia Just discovered FORA.tv media channel – happened on this discussion with Joe Pantoliano on his advocacy for mental illness.

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echoblog: Declaration of Health Data Rights

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by Scooter Flix via Flickr pointer to — Dr. John Grohol, the CEO and founder of Psych Central, has a great post “You have the right to your health data” and introduces the Declaration of Health Data Rights,  a simple statement of fundamental patient rights.  Check it out and endorse!

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echoblog: Handicapping the politics (cashflow) of healthcare reform

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by spike55151 via Flickr Just a pointer to an amazing analysis on the politics of moving forward with a more comprehensive government sponsored healthcare option.  Sadly, but not surprisingly, the flow of lobbying funds predicts who will vote to maintain the status quo.

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Timothy Stoltzfus Jost nails consumer-driven healthcare in a pre-health2.0 kind of way

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

There is no doubt that -omics and digital-bio is improving healthcare, IF, you’re NOT one of the 50 million uninsured human beings in America who lack health insurance. As a fan of all things free-and-open, bioinformatic and health2.0, I was glad to read Timothy Stoltzfus Jost ‘s new book, Health Care at Risk: A Critique [...]

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GINA and the death of health insurance ?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr I much enjoyed the recent article, “Do Not Ask or Do Not Answer” in the August 25th Economist. As genetic data begins to trickle into the hands of consumers, the debate on genetic privacy grows more intense. On the one hand, the article notes that the SRY gene has [...]

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Interview central for discussions on healthcare economics

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If I may shill for the corporate medical industrial complex for a moment … I much enjoyed the video interviews found at the Corporate Research Group. Regina Herzlinger predicts universal coverage, but not a single-payer system – rather a system where consumers have choices. How to decide which plan to chose ???

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The new financial order – for healthcare?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In, The New Financial Order, professor Robert Shiller offers an in-depth analysis of how finance can and should be used to improve the human condition. By appropriately adapting financial instruments with risk, the consequences of many of life’s sudden shocks (natural disaster, loss of job, health crisis etc.) are readily ameliorated. Although he does not [...]

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