Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J Kosterlitz.
Congress's recognized leaders on health issues face competition from newcomers who are fed up with the failings of the medical system. They are proposing changes ranging from applying federal benefits guidelines to copying Canada's national health plan.
Both the health insurance industry and its critics agree that reforms are needed to guarantee medical coverage for small businesses and their employees. The question is, how sweeping will the changes be?
A new federal health agency to establish guidelines for the practice of medicine started out with high hopes that it can help lower the nation's health care bill. But big savings seem unlikely.
Though still wary of national health insurance, many businesses are entertaining a government role in health care reform, eyeing cost control methods such as tax penalties and uniform pricing.
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After a bumpy start that tagged him as a political naif, HHS Secretory Louis W. Sullivan is tackling his agency's herculean mission by exhorting the public on preventive health issues that don't bust the budget.
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What can be done about abuse children and the homeless mentally ill? Some experts propose putting them back in orphanages or mental hospitals. But institutionalization is an approach the nation had renounced about two decades ago.
Will America be forced to cut medical care to its neediest citizens? Yes, some critics say, and it already is doing that. They say it's time to face reality.
Alzheimer's, once considered a rare affliction, is now billed as one of the nation's leading killers. Its rapid rise to public and political prominence is the result in part of a carefully crafted public relations strategy.
With Washington paralyzed by partisan politics, states are taking the lead in experimenting with ways to solve the nation's growing health care crisis. This is the second of two articles on responses to the growing health care crisis. A report on organized labor's efforts begins on p. 704.
Though the Rockefeller panel on health care declined to say how to pay for its proposals, its report will force the public to address the question.
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