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Frank Luntz is Back with Doublespeak About Health Care Reform

by francine 05.08.2009

Senator Merkin from Oregon wrote a piece in the Huffington Post yesterday that deserves your attention. You have to be concerned enough to remember when Frank Luntz, noted Republican pollster, drove all honest people crazy by turning English into Doublespeak and twisting words so they didn’t mean what we thought they did. Sen. Merkin says [...]

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Twitter, Morning Joe, and the Health Care Conversation

by francine 04.19.2009

Image via Wikipedia Relying on a story from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Joe Scarborough called Obama the most polarizing President of our times on Twitter Friday. Because I have an empty life, most of which is frittered away on Twitter (I’m being sarcastic) I followed the conversation over the weekend, [...]

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Class Warfare? The Insured vs the Uninsured

by francine 03.27.2009

When Coastside Family Medical Center in Half Moon Bay suddenly closed its doors, both the insured and the uninsured members of the comunity suffered.  The insured had no idea that they were part of the “cause” of the problem; the CFMC was unable to get legal recognition as a clinic for the poor because we, [...]

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How to Implement EHRs (if at all)

by francine 01.21.2009

Now that Obama has told people that health IT is on his radar screen for public investment, all the interest groups are lining up.  Below are some excerpts from a blog post by the head of the Commission on Health Information Technology,

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