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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Tries for an Obamacare Repeal Revival
The president bought some more time for the Republican health-care effort, but he hasn’t changed any minds yet.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Why So Many Democrats Are Embracing Single-Payer Health Care
Vocal support for universal coverage is on the rise among Democrats in Congress, though the party is far from united on the issue.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Senate GOP Health-Care Bill Inches Closer to Obamacare
Republicans scrambling for votes are now considering keeping a key tax on the wealthy to pay for expanded insurance coverage, as the legislation moves further away from repeal.
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Elaina Natario / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Therapy for Everybody
In Appalachia, a primary-care clinic offers quick bursts of psychotherapy on the spot.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Democrats Stage a Senate Slowdown Over Health Care
They’ll disrupt ordinary business and hold the floor all night for speeches to protest the GOP’s secretive attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare
They’ve said if Republicans dropped their repeal demand, they’d be willing to help repair the law. Here are some of their ideas.
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The Parathyroid Experts Speak
To round out some of the reader accounts and other reports collected in his thread, occasioned by Garry Shandling’s death…
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Readers on Their Parathyroid Experiences: ‘It’s Up to You’
This is part of a brand-new Thread, kicked off for this reason: As I mentioned in yesterday’s Note…
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Hmmm, Where Have We Seen This Before?
The pull-quote at the beginning of my current cover story says: Many people are discouraged about America…
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CDC The Electronic-Medical-Records Email of the Day, No. 1
"Just as cars are not all the same, Electronic Medical Records vary greatly. A Mercedes, a Maserati and a Yugo are all cars, but you certainly wouldn't accuse someone of rejecting a used Yugo as being a Luddite and hating all cars. Similarly, you shouldn't generalize physicians who reject terrible programs as hating EMR."
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Wikimedia commons If Doctors Don't Like Electronic Medical Records, Should We Care?
"Yes, there are problems in any technology implementation and there always will be. But fewer people die. Yes, it is important to connect with the patient. But fewer people die. Yes, the opportunity to pad billing is obscene. But fewer people die."
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Money and Medicine Electronic Medical Records: A Way to Jack up Billings, Put Patients in Control, or Both?
"Digital records are also being aggressively used to maximize patient billings," and other imperfections on the route to a more sensible health care system.
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Our Eyes Have Adjusted ...
Reports from Oregon, and Hawaii
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Yes, There Were Fat People in the Olden Days Too
Even before there were Big Gulp sodas...
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'Our Eyes Have Adjusted': Here's What That Means
Our eyes, our stomachs -- something has adjusted.
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Readers Dissent About HHS and Plan B
For better and worse, a political choice
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The Poison Ivy Update
"You can look but you better not touch"; ways to cope with the results if you do
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While I'm Still in the Churl-Free Mood: #5, Tecnu!
From the bowels of the military-industrial research complex, a product to make life better, especially in the summer time
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Those Wacky Canadians!
People from up north say they have a better approach to covering and controlling medical costs. And you know what?...
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More on the Ryan Plan, Medicare, and the 'Death Tax'
Readers weigh in on the pluses and minuses of changing Medicare after the GOP House passes a bill to radically alter it
