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"Every American should have freedom of choice in health care. Learn More... Statement of Purpose The United States spends $2.1 trillion on health care, roughly 16 percent of the gross domestic product. ..."
"Congress will soon unveil legislation to reform the health care system. The policies outlined by President Obama during his campaign and those being discussed in Congress would centralize control over the health care system in Washington."
"On health care reform, the American people are too often offered two extremes--government-run health care with higher taxes or letting the insurance companies operate without rules. Barack Obama and Joe ..."
"Over the past several years, a number of plans for health care reform have been proffered by conservative members of Congress, President Bush, and members of conservative think tanks. The general theme ..."
"'Medicare for All' Universal Health Care Would Not Solve the Problem of Rising Health Care Costs."
"Family members and patients wait to be admitted to an emergency room at a hospital in Madera, CA. Conservatives argue that everyone has access to emergency services, but that's no substitute for comprehensive health care."
"Most nonelderly Americans with private health insurance—nearly 162 million in 2006—get their insurance from an employer. A significant number of these Americans—56 million—have ..."

"A Profile of the Uninsured in AmericaThis article presents a profile of the uninsured population in the U.S., providing key facts on its size and demographics and the impact of lack of insurance on access to care and health status."
"A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum examines the health coverage, access to health care, and health status of Asian American, Native Hawaiian ..."
"The Cost of Uninsured, this is from 2004- Lets fight the propaganda..."
"As Congress debates comprehensive health reform and discusses the elements of reform, the proposals that emerge promise to be as complex as the problems they seek to fix. This glossary is intended to serve as a resource for understanding the concepts included in health reform proposals. ..."
"This analysis, based on data from the 2007 Health Tracking Household Survey, examines how health coverage and access to care for non-elderly adults vary based on immigrants’ length of time in the U.S. ..."
"Expanding coverage to the uninsured is a key issue in health reform. A number of leading proposals rely on a combination of public and private approaches to achieve broader coverage with shared responsibilities across employees, employers, government, consumers and insurance markets. ..."
"ANNALS OF MEDICINE about health-care costs. Writer contrasts the high-cost health-care system in McAllen, Texas, with the lower-cost systems at the Mayo Clinic and in Grand Junction, Colorado…"
"An organization of 14,000 American physicians advocating for single-payer national health insurance."
"Three problems stopping people from getting the HIV drugs they need, and one solution to the problem. Join the push for the Patent Pool. One way we can help the millions of people around the world who need treatment for HIV but aren't getting it."
"On December 2nd at 6:00PM Central time in the USA, I will be hosting a live teleconference. Hosted by the American Medical Student Association, the..."
"Project censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism."— Walter Cronkite
"In good times and bad, science doesn't sleep, and every year brings breakthroughs, setbacks, reasons for worry and reasons for joy. TIME's annual alphabetical roundup of a sampling of those stories..."
"Here's a look at what we're doing to make sure those extra years are healthy years."
"Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus."