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11.15.2009 9:00 pm

New survey shows weaknesses in U.S. primary care

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If you’re planning to get sick outside of regular business hours, you’d be well advised to do it in the Netherlands.
Almost every Dutch primary care doctor — 97 percent, to be precise — has a nurse or physician…

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10.20.2009 9:01 pm

Improving health systems means better care for less money

If there were a way to save $207.4 million, avoid 30,000 unnecessary hospitalizations and more than 2,000 premature deaths, we’d jump at it, right?
That’s what Missouri would gain if its health system performed as well as the systems in Vermont,…

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08.12.2008 9:00 pm

Wednesday editorial: Paying the bill

cd_ac_1m_baby_cords_opt.jpgBy a very wide margin, Americans believe that the nation’s health care system requires a major overhaul, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund. An overwhelming 82 percent of respondents said the system should be fundamentally changed or…

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