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Insurance Companies Are Already Courting E-Patients

by francine 10.06.2009

I spent the day at Health 2.0 conference in the Bay Area. This is the third year of the conference, and it has grown from a fringe group of early adopters and application developers to a bona fide e-patient movement, probably spurred by the broken health care system. Health plans already know that whatever versions [...]

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British Doctors and Patients Refute Lies About NHS

by francine 09.14.2009

Dear Senator Kerry, Your reported call for “lies” about health care reform to be refuted is essential and requires an urgent response. To that end, may we – British health professionals and patients – respectfully expose those “lies” which are about our National Health Service, a service which our experience shows to work successfully for [...]

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Real Canadians Talking Real Health Care

by April Capil 09.02.2009

As our health care debate has overheated, myths about the Canadian health care system abound. The Republicans and the media are using the Canadian system to criticize everything from the public option to breast cancer treatment as they continue to stonewall any reform. This video, and more like it, might finally change the debate by [...]

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Throw in the Towel or Just Throw Up

by francine 09.01.2009

All summer long I’ve been turning myself into an expert on health care reform. I always knew more about health care in the USA than most, because I did the public relations for the first HMO in Arizona and then went on to make health care a big segment of my company”s client roster. So [...]

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