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The Great ER Caper
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Naomi Freundlich,
The Century Foundation,
9/15/2009
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Jack Coulehan is a physician and senior fellow at the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. He describes himself as “not only an experienced physician, but also an advocate—in fact, a teacher—of standard-of-care practice.” But he was no match for the vagaries of the hospital emergency room. In the most recent issue of Health Affairs, Coulehan writes about hearing tales from friends about being “caught in a web of excessive and unnecessary medical testing” when they went to their doctors for seemingly routine problems. Although sympathetic, he couldn't really relate.
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The Health Beat by Maggie Mahar Blog
 The Century Foundation fellow, Maggie Mahar discusses today's most pressing health care policy issues in The Health Beat by Maggie Mahar blog. Click here to view.
Getting More Value from Medicare
In “Getting More Value from Medicare,” The Century Foundation, fellow and HealthBeat Blog editor Maggie Mahar points out that past proposals for containing Medicare’s costs, such as putting a cap on physicians’ fees or requiring beneficiaries to pay more for their care, have not worked.
Money-Driven Medicine
 View, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins 2006), a book by The Century Foundation's Health Fellow, Maggie Mahar. |
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A Second Opinion
Dr. Arnold Relman,
PublicAffairs,
The Century Foundation,
4/23/2007
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Medicare Tomorrow
The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform, Century Foundation Press
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