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The uninsured give but rarely receive transplants
Because of the mismatch between the numbers of individuals who are candidates to receive organ transplants and the numbers of donors available, sometimes difficult decisions have to be made as to who will receive the transplants. As complex as these decisions are, it is a sad commentary that, in the United States, we add one additional complicating factor: Does the potential recipient have insurance?
Nov 18, 2008 09:38AM
Senator urges reform to 'hodge-podge' health care system
By DIANE COCHRAN | The Billings Gazette Staff
Everything should be on the table as lawmakers consider ways to improve health care, Baucus said.Nov 18, 2008 08:38AM
Uninsured Give but Rarely Receive Organs for Transplant
Posted by Vanessa Fuhrmans | Wall Street Journal Blog
Call it the ultimate inequity in health care. A team of Harvard researchers finds that people without health insurance are about 20 times more likely to donate a liver or kidney than to receive one.Nov 17, 2008 01:27PM
Aetna creates "Medical Home." Really?
Aetna, in partnership with Partners in Care, has usurped the "medical home" label to... provide us with a comprehensive primary care system? Well... No. On top of our flawed systems of financing and delivering care, they are adding "customizable product and service lines." With our system already weighted down with an excess of egregiously wasteful administrative services, they are using the medical home label to sell us even more egregiously wasteful administrative services!
Nov 17, 2008 01:11PM
By Bob Balhiser | Independent Record
The Baucus health care reform plan looks like the hodge-podge system we now have, just more of it! To top it all off, he ?didn?t have a price tag for the plan.? Amazing!Copyright 2008