How can we, and who should, regulate quality?
How do we define quality?
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Political reform process
With the 2008 elections coming up, we now have two democratic candidates campaigning for hope and change, along universal health coverage, while health care is largely absent from the Republican rhetoric. We live in a country that's split along a wide spectrum; the ends range from a radical overhaul of our employer-based system to change towards one in which people contribute towards private savings accounts.
- Do you think radical change is possible?
- How do the health care proposals of the two Democratic candidates compare? How about with the Republican candidate?
- Should we opt for incremental or more rapid, revolutionary change?
- Do you think radical change is possible?
- How do the health care proposals of the two Democratic candidates compare? How about with the Republican candidate?
- Should we opt for incremental or more rapid, revolutionary change?
Medical education
Is medical school too expensive? Does it distort the incentive of physicians?
Are medical schools pushing too hard for doctors to specialize?
Should the premedical curriculum be revised?
Are we paying doctors too much?
Are medical schools pushing too hard for doctors to specialize?
Should the premedical curriculum be revised?
Are we paying doctors too much?
Health/disease topics
In this entry, you can open the forum for comments on health care policy issues related to specific diseases (i.e. heart disease, diabetes, autism) or health topics (i.e. environmental health, preventive health).
Regional and international perspectives
Here, you can provide comments on perspectives from health care systems from different geographical regions (within the U.S. or internationally).
!Salud!, a documentary about health care through Latin American lenses
http://www.saludthefilm.net/ns/synopsis.html
A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.
A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.
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