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	Jahiel: Health Care in The United States
		The health care system of the United States is examined from the end of the 19th century to the present, using secondary sources on labor and health care.
		The priority of the public health sector decreased during the first third of the 20th century, coincident with the rising priority of the personal health delivery system, and the domination of the health care system by curative medicine and by the private sector, and it has not recovered since.
		The fourth invariant is the scientific and technological approach to health care which was established in the late 19th century for environmental health and at the beginning of the 20th century for personal health care, and still persists.
	www.cmj.hr /1998/39/3/9740645.htm (11272 words)

	National Health Care in the United States: Exploring the Options and Possibilities
		Though the discussion surrounding a national health care system in the United States can quickly turn into one that is dominated by political and economic considerations of feasibility and implementation, the issue itself is grounded in a set of ethical, moral and philosophical considerations.
		Health care is the consequence of heroic efforts on the part of individual doctors, who have every right to charge what the market permits.
		While numerous ideas have been suggested to reform the US health care delivery system, one of the most cogently argued cases for a single-payer health care system in the United States was published in 1989 by David Himmelstein and Steffe Woolhandler in the New England Journal of Medicine.
	www.cwru.edu /med/epidbio/mphp439/National_Health_Care.htm (2023 words)

	Women's Health Care in the United States: Selected Findings From the 2004 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities ...
		Childbirth and reproductive care are the most common reasons for women of childbearing age to use health care.
		All States in the New England census division were at least 10 percent above the national average for receipt of early prenatal care in all years from 1999 to 2002 (Figure 7).
		The impact of prenatal care on neonatal deaths in the presence and absence of antenatal high-risk conditions.
	www.ahrq.gov /qual/nhqrwomen/nhqrwomen.htm (2278 words)

	NCHC \| Facts About Healthcare - Health Insurance Cost
		U.S. health care spending is expected to increase at similar levels for the next decade reaching $4 TRILLION in 2015, or 20 percent of GDP (2).
		In 2004, health care spending in the United States reached $1.9 trillion, and was projected to reach $2.9 trillion in 2009 (2).
		Health care spending accounted for 10.9 percent of the GDP in Switzerland, 10.7 percent in Germany, 9.7 percent in Canada and 9.5 percent in France, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
	www.nchc.org /facts/cost.shtml (1336 words)

	RESULTS: Health Care in the United States
		Health care coverage should enhance health and well-being by promoting access to high-quality care that is effective, efficient, safe, timely, patient centered, and equitable.
		In the Health and Human Services’ National Healthcare Disparities Report, the word “disparity” is used as “the condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree.” Disparities in health greatly impact the health care community.
		Changes in health care policy, allowing legal immigrants to have better access to health coverage, would dramatically reduce the disparities that exist in the health of the legal immigrant population of the United States (see our TANF alert).
	www.results.org /website/article.asp?id=839 (2241 words)

	HCFO hot topic: Rationing Health Care: Is the United States Willing? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As health care costs climb and as new threats challenge limited resources, additional rationing efforts, explicitly based on costs rather than medical necessity, may be needed.
		A study assessing the relative health status of individuals in Great Britain and the United States analyzed residents ages 55 to 64 using comparable measures of health, income, and education.
		The challenge that may face Americans, Aaron notes, is how best to ration “rationally.” 10 With the diffusion of consumer-based health care, Americans may voluntarily limit their own spending, circumventing the need to seriously consider widespread rationing.
	www.hcfo.net /current_topic.htm (1941 words)

	The Case for Universal Health Care in the United States (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Health care providers would be in fee for service practice, and would not be employees of the government, which would be socialized medicine.
		Single payer health care is not socialized medicine, any more than the public funding of education is socialized education, or the public funding of the defense industry is socialized defense.
		State level bills and referenda will be most effective because a federal health care system might in fact be too bureaucratic, and because it is not politically realistic at this time.
	cthealth.server101.com.cob-web.org:8888 /the_case_for_universal_health_care_in_the_united_states.htm (2138 words)

	Chiropractic in the United States: Role in Health Care System
		At present, chiropractic is both alternative (in that it approaches health care from a distinctly different perspective than that of the dominant health care profession, medicine) and mainstream (in that it has gained popular acceptance).
		An analysis of the 1974-82 RAND Health Insurance Experiment data found that chiropractors were the first health care providers seen for 38 percent of episodes of back pain and that chiropractors were the "primary" provider (i.e., the provider type that delivered the majority of care) for 40 percent of back pain episodes (Shekelle, 1995).
		The Armed Forces of the United States recently agreed to conduct a pilot study of the utility of chiropractic care as part of health care provided to active military personnel and their families.
	www.chirobase.org /05RB/AHCPR/07.html (7767 words)

	The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
		ABC News featured the Intermountain Health Care system in Salt Lake City, which the Atlas used as a benchmark for efficiency in the treatment of the chronically ill. Finally, the ABC/USA Today collaborative named the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care web site as one of the five most important web sites in health policy.
		Misuse of preference-sensitive care refers to situations in which there are significant tradeoffs among the available options, yet often the patient's values and preferences are not taken into account when deciding the course of treatment.
		The overuse of supply-sensitive care is particularly apparent in the management of chronic illness, where there is often an overdependence on hospitals and a lack of the infrastructure necessary to support the management of chronically ill patients in non-inpatient settings.
	www.dartmouthatlas.org (1426 words)

	NCPA - Health Care Issues - The United States Government Weeds Out Doctors
		Health care experts across the country were reportedly stunned by the plan.
		The plan was devised by officials of the Greater New York Hospital Association, a powerful lobbying group, and approved by the Health Care Financing Administration -- the agency that disperses Medicare funds.
		And rationing was a major part of the original Clinton health care reform plan.
	www.ncpa.org /health/pdh31.html (761 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. health care not always best in world, study says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A review of health care in the United States and four other industrialized, English-speaking countries, published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs, found that the United States leads in some areas and trails in others.
		Yet the United States was the only country that registered a rise in deaths from asthma.
		Although health care experts are increasingly aware of gaps in the quality of care, the report notes that U.S. politicians frequently state, as President Bush did in his State of the Union address in January, "Americans have the best medical care in the world."
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2004-05-04-health-care_x.htm (374 words)

	1989 AC Statement on Health Care in the United States
		Our present health care system is a mix of private and public programs, which fails to serve all of our citizens well.
		Establishes national standards for delivering health services and assessing medical technology, yet permits local boards of expert and community representatives to participate in determining which services and technology are needed and how they should be delivered.
		Examine how health care is administered in the community and work to improve the quality and accessibility of local health care.
	www.brethren.org /ac/ac_statements/89HealthCare.htm (886 words)

	Hoover Institution - Daily Report Archives - Subspecialty Health Care in the United States: More Is Better!
		Despite managed care, however, health care costs have continued to rise—placing expensive new medical technologies at risk in discussions of containing health care costs.
		Although the United States is leading the world into a new era in medicine with the convergence of advances in molecular biology, medical imaging, and minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy, a trend toward non-state-of-the-art technologies is directly correlated with the degree of managed-care penetration.
		The rising costs of health care, most of which are a result of technological advances, cannot continue to be tolerated by the current system.
	www.hoover.org /pubaffairs/dailyreport/archive/2829096.html (584 words)

	United states health care system (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	united-states-health-care-system.thesingingdetective.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 (363 words)

	Health care in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the majority of citizens that have health insurance either have employment related insurance or must purchase it directly.
		In 2006, tired of waiting for the state or national governments to do anything, the city of San Francisco announced plans for a citywide universal healthcare system, beginning in 2007.
		The U.S. government has taken the position (through the Office of the United States Trade Representative) that U.S. drug prices are rising because U.S. consumers are effectively subsidizing costs which drug companies cannot recover from consumers anywhere else (because many other countries use their bulk-purchasing power to aggressively negotiate drug prices).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States (2000 words)

	Tilting at Windmills - health care in the United States, and other topics Washington Monthly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There is, reports a recent Rand study, a "surprisingly small amount of systematic knowledge on the quality of health care delivered in the United States." This is especially troubling because the few studies that exist suggest real problems.
		This, it was thought, would prevent bad doctors from moving from state to state or hospital to hospital without having their new employer find out about their records.
		And malpractice suits are often settled by having the payments made by health plans, professional corporations, group practices or hospitals--because, if the payment is not made by the doctor himself, it does not have to be reported.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_10_31/ai_55983376 (940 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Michael Moore's next project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michael Moore, whose blistering, awarding-winning attack on the Bush administration, "Fahrenheit 9/11," is setting box-office records for a "documentary" says his next project will be an expose of health care in the United States.
		He told the London Guardian he hopes to embarrass health insurance companies and hospitals into continuing to care for patients with no coverage – highlighting holes in the American system.
		This time, Moore says he will be part of the story, as he was in previous work – using a hand-held camera and attempting to embarrass health-care providers into treating indigent patients.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39278 (261 words)

	NEJM -- Language Barriers to Health Care in the United States
		used in their care, but they have lower levels of patient satisfaction.
		Flores is director of the Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children and a professor of pediatrics, epidemiology, and health policy at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Children's Research Institute of the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
		Flores G, Abreu M, Schwartz I, Hill M. The importance of language and culture in pediatric care: case studies from the Latino community.
	content.nejm.org /cgi/content/full/355/3/229 (1277 words)

	Amazon.com: American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, Health Care in the United States: Books: W. Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the U.S. by Thomas LaVeist
		In this follow-up to the path-breaking An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race (LJ 8/00), the authors, both senior research scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health, complete their study of African American healthcare.
		American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, Health Care in the United States by W.
	www.amazon.com /American-Health-Dilemma-Medicine-United/dp/0415927374 (1047 words)

	Comprehensive Chartbook on U.S. Health Care Quality
		This first-of-its-kind portrait of the state of health care quality in the United States documents serious gaps in quality on many crucial dimensions of care: lack of preventive care, medical mistakes, substandard care for chronic conditions, and health care disparities.
		The chartbook is based on more than 150 published studies and reports about quality of care.
		Quality of Health Care in the United States: A Chartbook, Sheila Leatherman, Ph.D. and Douglas McCarthy, The Commonwealth Fund, April 2002
	www.cmwf.org /publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=221238 (242 words)

	RAND \| RAND Health \| Featured Research \| How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?
		Quality of health care is on the national agenda.
		Much of the interest in quality of care has developed in response to the dramatic transformation of the health care system in recent years.
		In the absence of a national quality tracking system, we believe such a summary is the best way to provide an overview of the quality of care delivered in the United States.
	www.rand.org /health/feature/2005/051123_schuster.html (345 words)

	Citizens' Health Care Working Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thousands of Americans have spoken, and the independent, nonpartisan Citizens’ Health Care Working Group formulated recommendations based on this extensive public input.
		For over 15 months, the Working Group engaged the American people in an open dialogue about the current state of our health care system.
		You shared your experiences generously, expressing your concerns, wishes, and expectations about the health care system and how you want it changed.
	www.citizenshealthcare.gov (215 words)

	Political Economy of Health Care in the United States - CHP/PCOR
		The economic tools and institutional and legal background to understand how markets for health care products and services work.
		Public policy issues in health care, medical ethics, regulation of managed care, patients bill of rights, regulation of pharmaceuticals, Medicare reform, universal health insurance, and coverage of the uninsured.
		International perspectives, how other countries' health care systems evolved, and what the United States can learn from their experiences.
	chppcor.stanford.edu /courses/742 (111 words)

	Physicians for a National Health Program - Health Care is a Human Right
		Physicians for a National Health Program is a nonprofit organization of 14,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance.
		This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar.
		PNHP is at the forefront of research and action for a single-payer national health program.
	www.pnhp.org (229 words)

	National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health
		Health and drug information for patients, family and friends
		Interactive guide to common toxic chemicals, your health, and the environment
		National Institutes of Health, Health and Human Services
	www.nlm.nih.gov (103 words)

	Strategian: Health Care -- United States, Canada, World, etc.
		Strategian: Health Care -- United States, Canada, World, etc.
		The "Hot Topic" bibliographies consist of lists of publications (journal and magazine articles, books, etc.) that are carefully chosen, evaluated, and updated to reflect scientific research and opinion on a wide variety of aspects of a particular topic.
		The American Health Care System -- The Movement for Improved Quality in Health Care (February 11, 1999)
	www.strategian.com /healthcare.html (255 words)

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