Democrats Now See 'No Rush' on Health Care Bill
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Healthcare reform? Were we talking about healthcare reform?
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I write on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications. (Find clips here.) Right now I'm writing my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which explores the hypothesis that the genetic roots some of our worst problems and traits — depresison, hyperaggression, violence, antisocial behavior — can also give rise to resilience, cooperation, empathy, and contentment. The book expands on my December 2009 Atlantic article exploring these ideas.
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Ezra Klein - America spends way, way, way more on health care
Category: Healthcare policy
We don't have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government's partial role is pricier...
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Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage
Category: Healthcare policy
Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering -- as is the complacency about same.
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Top 5 Neuron Culture Posts for October
Category: Swine flu
A bit early yet, but as I'm traveling the rest of the month, here's my top 5 over the last month. Swine flu everywhere you look.
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Why is the swine flu vaccine so late? Who are you to ask such a question?
Category: Healthcare policy
I like industrial secrets as much as the next person. But it would seem that when tens of millions of doses of vaccine are weeks late, we might get something more specific than that one company was overoptimistic and another had trouble filling syringes.
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"The right to infect": SophiaZoe tells us what she really thinks about health workers & flu shots
Category: Healthcare policy
Nurses and doctors have won a victory in their battle for their "right" to infect patients with easily prevented...
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If Vermont is #1 in health care, this country's in big trouble
Category: Healthcare policy
The steps we've taken, while half-measures to be sure, reflect the state's essential decency and civility. Yet Vermont's distinction is not in curing the healthcare problem. We're just stanching the bleeding a bit better than other states.
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Healthcare reform roundup: The Turnaround
Category: Healthcare policy
The tone of discussions of reform in both Congress and the blogosphere has changed remarkably over the last few days. It's gone from pessimistic to optimistic, and from a sense of retreat and a whittling away of substantive reform toward a careful expansion of reform -- including the inclusion of a public option.
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Am I dreaming, or are both swine flu and the healtcare reform backlash in retreat?
Category: Healthcare policy
Probably dreaming. But now and then it all seems so real.
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Is American Healthcare Going All Euro on Us?
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Ezra Klein thinks it might. "We're America," Max Baucus likes to say. "Which means we have to write a...
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