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07.23.2008 8:01 pm

Thursday editorial: Profit/patient relationship

bz_cg_medical_imaging1_opt.jpgYou drop your car off for routine service. The mechanic has bad news. He needs to replace a part you’ve never heard of. It’s going to be expensive, he says.
Is this for real, you ask yourself, or is he…

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06.14.2008 9:00 pm

Sunday Editorial: The big pool

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He didn’t come to St. Louis to walk the fault line in modern medicine. But that’s essentially what happened when Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, visited with cardiac patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital last week.
Cardiac care units like…

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04.29.2008 4:47 pm

Paying up front for health care

lackoffunds_opt.jpgNonprofit hospitals are increasingly demanding payment in advance for complex and expensive cancer treatments and other non-emergency care for life-threatening illness, the Wall Street Journal reports this week.

It highlights the story of 52-year-old Lisa Kelly of Lake Jackson, TX., who was…

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