by Sylvia Moore | Jul 30, 2013 | News, Video
Forty-eight years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson, shown with guests, including Vice President Hubert Humphrey (at right, in back) and former President Harry S. Truman (at right), signed the landmark legislation expanding guaranteed medical care to Americans 65...
by Sylvia Moore | Jan 25, 2012 | News, Video
Why does the United States still maintain a bloated, inefficient and outrageously expensive healthcare system? The new documentary, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, which is premiering at this week’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City,...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 4, 2011 | News
This post was inspired by my pastor Bob Hurst’s sermon last Sunday, built around the instruction not to fret over how some evil-doers never seem to get what they deserve. As my mother put it, “life’s not fair” (subtext “quit whining and get over it”). Bob did a...
by Andrew McGuire | Aug 25, 2010 | News
The impact of universal National Health Insurance on population health: the experience of Taiwan By Yue-Chune Lee, Yu-Tung Huang, Yi-Wen Tsai, Shiuh-Ming Huang, Ken N Kuo, Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte BMC Health Services Research August 4, 2010 Background Taiwan...
by Sylvia Moore | Aug 16, 2010 | News
In researching his book The Healing of America, Washington Post correspondent and NPR commentator T.R. Reid said he wanted to find out why the world’s richest country doesn’t provide high quality health care to all its citizens and at half the cost like...