State Health Watch Archives – December 1, 2006
December 1, 2006
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Americans are spending more on health care as quality and access fall
Despite spending 16% of its gross domestic product on health care, double the median of industrialized countries, the United States is the only major industrialized country that fails to guarantee universal health insurance. -
Fiscal Fitness: How States Cope: Reasons for high ED use are Texas docs responding positively to liability reform
The Texas Medical Association says the state has more physicians who are willing and able to provide needed medical care to sick and injured people because of the state's 2003 health care liability reform changes. -
States can achieve high performance health
While regional differences in the United States in cooking, music, and many other factors should be celebrated and preserved, variations affecting the quality of health care residents of each state receive must be eliminated. -
States making progress in policies to help pain sufferers
Some states have adopted policies recognizing that controlled substances are necessary for public health, that pain management is part of quality medical practice, that medical education should include pain management and palliative care, ... -
States given more flexibility to expand affordable LTC
A four-state program to help people buy affordable long-term care insurance may expand under greater flexibility given states by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.