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Health Care
Intelligence Squared Debate: Is The Government Responsible For Health Care?
Below are video clips of the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate “Is The Government Responsible For Health Care?” on September 16, 2008 at Rockefeller University in New York City. Universal Healthcare Debate 1: Introduction (1/12) Universal Healthcare Debate 5: Sally C. Pipes (5/12)
Commentary
What you don’t hear about health care
Health care reform will be front-and-center in the presidential debates. It’s a topic that’s full of complicated issues, so it can be hard to cut through all the rhetoric and figure out exactly what each candidate is proposing. So here’s the skinny on five questions that you’ll likely hear many ...
Commentary
Is the grass greener with socialized medicine?
With Democrats convinced 2008 is their year, the campaign trail is awash with promises to make universal health care a reality by the end of the next president’s first term. The basic argument of those who support a government takeover of the health care system is familiar. As New York ...
California
Healthy San Francisco
California Catholic Daily, July 23, 2008 Two Catholic hospitals join program to give “free” medical care to city’s 73,000 uninsured Three private hospitals in San Francisco – two of them Catholic – this month agreed to participate in the city’s ambitious plan to provide health care, free of charge or ...
Commentary
Wonder why Universal Health Care is Nothing but Smoke and Mirrors?
American Alliance Training Network Corp., July 27, 2008 MASSACHUSETTS’S UNIVERSAL health care law turned one in April. To survive, its guardians have had to make many changes, each of which has increased current and future government spending, increased the government’s role in regulating the healthcare market, decreased individual responsibility to ...
Health Care
Private hospitals join S.F. health care plan
San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2008 San Francisco’s ambitious universal health care program took a step forward Thursday, when private hospitals agreed to begin treating participants rather than leaving their care entirely up to the city’s strained public health system. The 25,000 people who have enrolled in Healthy San Francisco ...
Commentary
Private Hospitals Join S.F. Universal Health Access Effort
On Thursday, a number of private, not-for-profit hospitals signed on to treat uninsured people enrolled in San Francisco’s universal health care access program, expanding the effort beyond the city’s public health system, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Healthy San Francisco intends to provide care for all of the city’s 73,000 ...
Commentary
Remedies tackle California’s remedial education program
Every year poorly prepared college students cost Californians some $14 billion in remedial education programs, according to a new report published by the Pacific Research Institute or PRI. The report “The High Price of Failure in California: How Inadequate Education Costs Schools, Students, and Society,” argues that these direct and ...
Health Care Reform
Instead of Universal Coverage, Reforms that Will Work
Tens of millions of Americans lack health insurance. Extending coverage to them has been a core goal of health reform proposals since the 1960s. President Richard Nixon offered a universal health plan in his first administration, but since then Republicans have hesitated to commit the nation to so costly an ...
Commentary
Intelligence Squared U.S. Moves to Rockefeller University to Accommodate Sold Out Audiences
Marketwire, June 16, 2008 NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – June 16, 2008) – Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, today announced that its third year of sold out public debates will move to Rockefeller University’s Caspary Auditorium beginning with the fall season in September ...
Intelligence Squared Debate: Is The Government Responsible For Health Care?
Below are video clips of the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate “Is The Government Responsible For Health Care?” on September 16, 2008 at Rockefeller University in New York City. Universal Healthcare Debate 1: Introduction (1/12) Universal Healthcare Debate 5: Sally C. Pipes (5/12)
What you don’t hear about health care
Health care reform will be front-and-center in the presidential debates. It’s a topic that’s full of complicated issues, so it can be hard to cut through all the rhetoric and figure out exactly what each candidate is proposing. So here’s the skinny on five questions that you’ll likely hear many ...
Is the grass greener with socialized medicine?
With Democrats convinced 2008 is their year, the campaign trail is awash with promises to make universal health care a reality by the end of the next president’s first term. The basic argument of those who support a government takeover of the health care system is familiar. As New York ...
Healthy San Francisco
California Catholic Daily, July 23, 2008 Two Catholic hospitals join program to give “free” medical care to city’s 73,000 uninsured Three private hospitals in San Francisco – two of them Catholic – this month agreed to participate in the city’s ambitious plan to provide health care, free of charge or ...
Wonder why Universal Health Care is Nothing but Smoke and Mirrors?
American Alliance Training Network Corp., July 27, 2008 MASSACHUSETTS’S UNIVERSAL health care law turned one in April. To survive, its guardians have had to make many changes, each of which has increased current and future government spending, increased the government’s role in regulating the healthcare market, decreased individual responsibility to ...
Private hospitals join S.F. health care plan
San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2008 San Francisco’s ambitious universal health care program took a step forward Thursday, when private hospitals agreed to begin treating participants rather than leaving their care entirely up to the city’s strained public health system. The 25,000 people who have enrolled in Healthy San Francisco ...
Private Hospitals Join S.F. Universal Health Access Effort
On Thursday, a number of private, not-for-profit hospitals signed on to treat uninsured people enrolled in San Francisco’s universal health care access program, expanding the effort beyond the city’s public health system, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Healthy San Francisco intends to provide care for all of the city’s 73,000 ...
Remedies tackle California’s remedial education program
Every year poorly prepared college students cost Californians some $14 billion in remedial education programs, according to a new report published by the Pacific Research Institute or PRI. The report “The High Price of Failure in California: How Inadequate Education Costs Schools, Students, and Society,” argues that these direct and ...
Instead of Universal Coverage, Reforms that Will Work
Tens of millions of Americans lack health insurance. Extending coverage to them has been a core goal of health reform proposals since the 1960s. President Richard Nixon offered a universal health plan in his first administration, but since then Republicans have hesitated to commit the nation to so costly an ...
Intelligence Squared U.S. Moves to Rockefeller University to Accommodate Sold Out Audiences
Marketwire, June 16, 2008 NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – June 16, 2008) – Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, today announced that its third year of sold out public debates will move to Rockefeller University’s Caspary Auditorium beginning with the fall season in September ...
