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. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: More on Electric-Motor Efficiency vs. Gasoline-Motor Efficiency From: Dr. June Taylor Date: Wed, November 25, 2009 4:51 pm To: John Karls ------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Twp things to add to the outline: 1. Can we control costs of healthcare if it continues to be treated as a commodity? [I will bring an in-depth study which pretty well says the answer is "NO" :shock: - if you want to preview this material, it's from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care brief http://ww...

. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has put up a great public-access website:http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/ where you can find great info on healthcare and health insurance reform, such as (1) "Understanding How Americans View Health Care Reform" (2) "The Individual Mandate — An Affordab...

Greg Mortenson has dedicated yet another school, and last week Admiral Mullen took time to go along and pass out notebooks, etc, to the students! :P It's heartening to see that Adm. Mullen is consulting Mortenson on his knowledge of the area & its people. Blackhawk helicopters carrying some high-ran...

. Editorial Note - Originally Proposed by Utah Owl » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:49 am - 24 views before being transplanted here **************************************** Although "Three Cups of Tea" was a long-time NY Times Best-Seller, it was never reviewed by the NY Times. However, I have located two revi...

. Originally posted by UtahOwl on Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:23 am 6 views between April 11 and selection at May 13th meeting Another possible topic is William Greider's new book, Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country on his ideas about why America is losing its globa...

The following is from John Holahan's report Feb 3, 2009 for the Utah Health Policy Project: Health Reform: Why Now •The number of uninsured is large and growing •Health care cost (and premium) growth is faster than growth in GDP, wages and prices and is unsustainable •Health care costs adversely aff...

One possible outline is the White Paper issued by Sen. Max Baucus( http://finance.senate.gov/healthreform2009/finalwhitepaper.pdf ). The main points of this were summarized in Nov 2008 by Ron Eskow in HuffPo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/obama-healthcare-reform-a_b_143618.html as follows: "...

MASS. HEALTHCARE PLAN APR 2006 DOW JONES REPRINTS WSJ ONLINE April 18, 2006 THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE By BENJAMIN BREWER, M.D Government-Funded Care Is the Best Health Solution Multiple Insurers, Multiple Plans Create Expensive, Draining Hassle A recently approved Massachusetts plan designed to force all...

This is the full NEJM article, from which the table I posted was taken: Health Care and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Robert Steinbrook, M.D. On February 17, 2009, four weeks after his inauguration, President Barack Obama signed into law a $787 billion economic stimulus package.1,2 The ...

FYI, from NEJM Feb 26,2009 - info on what was in the SCHIP reauthorization bill, and the Democratic/GOP arguments pro and con Expanding Coverage for Children — The Democrats’ Power and SCHIP Reauthorization John K. Iglehart In the first demonstration of Democratic dominance on health care issues si...

OK, the last try at showing the Table did not work. In case this one doesn't either, here is the link - paste it into your browser!
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FYI, from the NEJM Feb 2009, is a summary of money for healthcare in the recently-signed "stimulus bill":

Proposed Topic = How should Obama reform health care? (Editorial Note – There is a wealth of information on this bulletin board from the last time we discussed national health care in August 2007 – 18 months ago.) Suggested Reading = the following article from The New Yorker of 26 January 2009. Gett...

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: Re: - Separate BUT UNEQUAL Public Schools - Vote for it on Citizens Briefing Book, the Obama Admin website - voting closes tonight! From: readingliberallyemaillist@johnkarls.com Date: Sun, January 18, 2009 7:09 p...