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Health Care Reform Information

Health care reform is a key issue affecting the lives of a great number of members. This community is a place to communicate ideas, problems, solutions, and experiences with health care.

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major policy creation or changes --for the most part, governmental policy --that affects healthcare delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:

* Broaden the population covered by private or public health insurance
* Expand the array of health care providers consumers may choose among
* Improve the access to health care specialists
* Improve the quality of health care
* Decrease the cost of health care
* Decrease the cost of health insurance

Health Blogs

What do you need to know about your doctor before you and your family decide that this is the person for you? Most of you have a choice in who your primary care doctor or specialist is, and this person plays a big role in your medical well-being. This profession has a wide range of docs-- some who are more capable, motivated, competent, and ... Read More »
Medications used to treat migraines show no real difference in effectiveness. Those were the findings from a recent large review of previous studies. This is important to you if you are paying a ton for your meds or taking one that gives you side effects. You may have a cheaper better alternative. Of the medications that work to decrease ... Read More »
Making health care safer, that’s what we all want. Medical mistakes contribute to unnecessary deaths each year, many of these during a hospital stay. To improve patient safety, the healthcare community has attempted to identify hazards and solutions that work to reduce patient harm. Here are some measures that the medical community has said ... Read More »

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