The American Medical Group Association today thanked President Barack Obama for positive comments made in a Time magazine interview regarding care delivered at AMGA member medical groups. The President singled out Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Geisinger Health System as models of high-quality, cost-efficient care and for their team approach to care delivery.
The latest edition of The George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a majority of voters (51%) believing that the country is on the wrong track. Their top areas of concern are the economy and jobs, health care costs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the federal budget deficit.
As President Obama sits down with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley on Thursday to discuss over beers the recent scandal, sociologists Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Patricia Warren assert that racially biased policing should be on the agenda.
Physicians and health professionals from the University of Michigan are available to comment on health care reform.
Indiana University experts A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh comment on President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Ghana. The president, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters will visit the African nation Friday and Saturday.
The University of Maryland has a number of experts who can talk about former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara - who died today at the age of 93.
House members and supporters rally for passage of historic clean energy bill.
The United States has attempted to pass major health reform legislation eight times in the last century, starting in the mid 1910s up through 1993-94 with the failed Clinton health reform effort. "Only once in that period was any legislation passed "” in 1964-65 when Medicare and Medicaid were passed," says Timothy McBride, Ph.D., associate dean of public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. "Yet, for many reasons, I feel that it is much more likely that legislation will pass this year."
With health care reform moving to the front of the national agenda, 10 Indiana University experts from the fields of public health, medicine, policy and law share their perspectives.
The land value tax, an increased tax rate on land and a reduced tax rate on buildings and improvements, can spur urban development and help contain sprawl, but its implementation has been sporadic, according to a new book co-edited by University of New Hampshire Professor Richard England.
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