truthdig.com — It is worth pausing during these orchestrated partisan celebrations to look afresh at entitlements. There is no more recent evidence of their enduring value than the latest report from the Census Bureau on the number of Americans who are doing without health insurance.
healthbeatblog.org — In the end, medical tourism might reduce our national health care bill by 1 percent to 2 percent — not enough to solve our problem
progressive.org — This August will be remembered as a defining moment in America’s history with AIDS — a time when we simultaneously realized our potential to impact the global epidemic and learned of our dramatic failure to control it at home.
huffingtonpost.com — There is a city where 1 out of 20 people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but it is not located in the developing world. It is Washington, DC, where the infection rate is higher than that of Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Nigeria.
alternet.org — McCain touts his health plan as a boon for consumers. But real-world data shows that buying health care is not the same as buying an iPod.
online.wsj.com — Rising deductibles, stiff drug co-payments and increasing prices for just about everything are forcing some hard choices about health. Care that doesn't strike patients as critical is getting delayed. As the economy squeezes my patients, they are showing up sicker.
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