What do doctors, patients want in health care reform?

Screen Shot 2017 08 03 at 10.32.06 AMInsurance lobbyists may influence the writing of a health law, but they don’t provide actual care. We doctors don’t want the same things they do.

I have fallen into the same trap that many of my fellow doctors have: I have analyzed the potential options for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act from the same place that politicians and policy wonks do

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Bio Farma Suplai Vaksin Imunisasi MR

Screen Shot 2017 08 03 at 10.19.11 AMINILAH, Bandung – Pemerintah berkomitmen kuat dalam mewujudkan eliminasi campak dan mengendalikan penyakit rubella serta kecacatan bawaan akibat Congenital Rubella Syndrome (rubella) di Indonesia pada tahun 2020.

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Quality health care is a basic human right

Screen Shot 2017 07 28 at 6.06.01 PMThe following statement was issued yesterday by the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation. It calls to task the Republicans busy now trying to kick anwhere from 20 to 30 plus million people off of health care

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Giving Priority to Healthcare in Nigeria

Screen Shot 2017 07 28 at 5.34.11 PMRelative to most countries, Nigeria is still lagging behind in areas of healthcare and mortality rates. But a recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievers Award of NHEA and a seasoned haematologist, Prof. Ibironke Akinsete, believes there can only be positive change if the citizens and the government give priority to healthcare. Martins Ifijeh writes

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