By its end, 2009 will be remembered politically for the struggle to overhaul the way Americans receive medical care. So far, it has exposed many flaws in our political world, most notably the ever-growing divide between conservative and liberal values.
Obviously, the job of changing health care in a country with such a large population is [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 21st, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Tagged with: debate, discussion, government, health, health care, insurance, media, medical, reporting, spin, town hall meetings
While I’ve found the media coverage of the health care debate to be overly sensational thus far, in a way I don’t really see any other way of covering it, primarily because of the passions it engenders on people from either side of the aisle.
For those who believe the government shouldn’t take on too much [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 18th, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Tagged with: affordable coverage, co-op plan, government, government-sponsored public insurance, health, insurance, media, President Obama
With the tense debate raging over how best to overhaul the healthcare coverage infrastructure, the White House has launched an offensive today against what it refers to as “viral whisper campaigns” designed to harbor dissent and negativity against the healthcare agenda.
Having taken many lessons from last year’s presidential campaign, the administration will be using the [...]
Filed under: News on August 5th, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Tagged with: bipartisanship, communication, David Axelrod, health, healthcare, insurance, internet, leaders, Obama, PR offensive, President Obama, progress, Rick Scott, Robert Gibbs, strategies, strategy, success, US
An article in Time points to a pilot healthcare program called Prometheus that seeks to cut costs by putting doctors on a budget. Set to launch in January of 2010, the radical model will be used to calculate insurance coverage for 80,000 workers in Rockford, Illinois, attempting to reverse the existing incentive-based system that drives [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News on July 7th, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
Tagged with: budget, cutting costs, doctors, efficiency, healthcare, innovation, insurance, patient care, prometheus
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.