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...rule for picking a vice-presidential running mate—like the rule for modern medicine??is first, do no harm, I’ve got the perfect choice for Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass.: Rep. Richard Gephardt...
...President Clinton himself dropped the subject after 1994, when his wife’s plan went down in flames. Ever since, the Right has cowed Democrats on the issue by labeling any single-payer proposal as “Hillarycare” or “socialized medicine??. And the public pays the price—literally, in the form of escalating health insurance costs. Every year, health insurance costs ratchet up about 15 percent, and over 41 million Americans currently have no coverage at all. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has shown how imperfect information...
...with the complexities of medical decisions, doctors are pressured to prescribe unnecessary tests and procedures in order to demonstrate that they explored every possible option for care. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reports that current estimates place the cost of this so-called “defensive medicine?? at up to $20 billion annually. In addition, NEJM has found that doctors’ fear of litigation harms patient safety. When errors do occur—as they inevitably will—doctors have every incentive to cover them up, rather than report the errors and attempt...
...proof that this works will come when we are delivering really good drugs,” Steele says. “When that happens, it’s going to change the whole industry. It’s going to change the way medicine??s done...
Sachs then spoke of his own experience visiting a clinic—which had no medicine??where 450 people were dying of treatable diseases in a room with only 160 beds...