(Can you recommend health care blogs to add to this compilation? Suggest them in the comments section below.)
Getting There from Here: How Health-Care Reform Really Happens, by Atul Gawande, New Yorker. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care. Why health costs are higher in some places and lower in others, and why some places have lower costs and higher quality and other places have higher costs and lower quality. By Dr. Atul Gawande, one of the most insightful writers on health care in the U.S. He investigates how we can contain the rising cost of healthcare in the US by examining the experiences of towns on both ends of the spending spectrum.
Accounting for Health Care Costs: Why Do Americans Spend More? McKinsey & Co. Study
Can Obama Deliver? Cutting Costs Will Be Most Compelling Argument in Health Care Reform Debate.
Canadian Compares/Contrasts Health Care, Economic System With U.S. Canadians Win
Lack of Universal Health Care Makes U.S. Less Competitive Internationally
18,000 People Die Annually From Lack of Health Insurance
On Health Care Reform: Will We Learn From Mistakes?
History of the Health Care Debate Since 1993 (PBS)
Kaiser Permanente CEO Leads Effort for Health Care Reform
'Sicko': Disturbing Facts About the U.S. Health Care System
"Sicko" Sparks New Health Care Debate
Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Mobilizes Public Discontent Over U.S. Health Care
Business Lobbies Are Key to Achieving Health Care Reform
Shortages of Doctors and Nurses Lead to Long Waits for Routine Care in U.S.
California 100% Campaign on Health Insurance: Model for North Carolina and Other States?
Nearly 1 in 5 North Carolinians Are Priced Out of Health Insurance
6.2 Million Children At High Risk of Poor Health Due to Poverty
Clinton Health Plan For Children Has Reduced Number of Uninsured
Americans Without Health Insurance: A Problem Growing Worse
Health Insurance Reform Fails Again in Congress
1.7 Million Children Live in Homes With Loaded, Unlocked Guns
Big Tobacco Lied to Public, Must Correct False Advertising
Newsweek Runs 'My Turn' Piece on Late-Term Abortion
"The Case For Legal Late-Term Abortions," by Jim Buie, Newsweek.com "Abortion wasn't an option for my parents, but raising my severely retarded brother nearly destroyed our family." It is sparking interesting comments.
Sister's Perspective on Severely Down Syndrome Brother
Aborting the Disabled: Debate Should Be Framed Outside Rigid Ideologies
Mentally Retarded Children Are Joy, Blessing to Some Families
Euthanizing the Severely Disabled: Positive or Negative Medical Trend?
Rosemary and the Kennedys' Exemplary Leadership on Mental Retardation
How to Define 'Happiness"? Are You Happy?
'My Lobotomy': Powerful Story
Preventing Teen Suicide
'I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy'
Congress Passes and President Signs Suicide Prevention Law
Suicide Rate Among Teens is Up Dramatically Since the 1950s
Does Freudian Psychotherapy Work?
Strengthen Gun Regulations, Commitment Laws for Mental Illness
Reflections
on Anger, Depression, Validation and Invalidation in Individuals,
Families, Organizations, Societies, National and World Politics
When Mental Illness Strikes A Family of Faith
Trouble
My Grandmother's Mental Illness
More Than One Out of Five Americans Will Experience a Mental Disorder
Was the Apostle Paul Mentally Ill?
Darkness Visible: What It Feels Like to be Depressed and to Contemplate Suicide
Beware the Shadow
Psychiatric Answering Machine
Blog of a Twenty-Something Psychiatrist in Residence
ADHD Caused By Father Absence?
FDA Suicide Warning Comes A Week Too Late For My Friend
Clinton Mentions HALT and addictive personalities
PERSONAL HEALTH ADVICE AND NEWS (E-patients)
We're Fat and Getting Fatter: 'Supersize Me' Should Be Required Viewing
Journal-keeping May Improve Memory, Thinking Performance, and Quality of Life for Senior Citizens
Signs of a Stroke: Remember S.T.R.
Environmental Risks to Health, Specifically Parkinson's-Pesticide Connection
'We Need to Think Differently About Aging'
How is the Internet Changing Health Care?
Internet-based Medical Research Is Easy, Efficient, Cost-Effective
John Huth, Pioneer in Improving the Lives of Senior Citizens in Nursing Homes, Passes On At Age 86
Can Aging Be Reversed?
10,000 Steps a Day (5 miles) Keeps Illness Away
The Grim Reaper As Life Coach
Reflections on Year's End, Winter Mortality, Reason for Writing, Blogging
Maxine's Living Will
Art Buchwald's Dispatches From Hospice: Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here
What Life Is Likely To Be Like Toward the End
How Writers Can Illuminate Better Care at the End of Life
Seeds Sprout Buds in Social Movement to Improve End-of-Life Care: Baby Boomers Lead Charge For "Better Deaths"
Seniors Share Desire for Better End-of-Life Care; Online Forum Gives Citizens A Chance to Ponder, Choose
Author Thomas Lynch, an Undertaker, Speaks to the Human Condition
Religious Groups Tackle End-of-Life Issues
Right-to-Life Activists Use Internet to Get Feeding Tube Reinserted In Comotose Patient
Journalist Marilyn Webb Crusades for 'The Good Death'
Dr. Ira Byock Promotes "Dying Well"
The Strange Case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian
