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How Health Care Was Killed under Clinton
UK Study: More Rest for Doctors Means Fewer Errors
BBC Panorama Show on U.S. Health Care Not Available in USA
| 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
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 1/30/09
(HuffPost) UK Study: More Rest Means Fewer
Doctor Errors Comment BBC News has a medical care 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
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1/25/09
(HuffPost) BBC Show on U.S. Health Care Unavailable in
USA 21 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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