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    The Jobless Recovery

    November 24, 2012

    If you want to understand the jobless recovery from the Great Recession of 2008, check out your local CVS or grocery store.  I’ve been staying in Jamaica Plain, Mass for […]

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    Doctors Refusing to Take Insurance At All

    October 7, 2012

    The New York Times Well blog just posted an article on physicians who refuse to take any insurance payments. The article is entitled When Doctors Stop Taking Insurance So you […]

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    Hospital in the Netherlands

    October 6, 2012

    Please look at my facebook page.  I took a series of photos yesterday in the large, 1000 bed hospital in Utrecht, the Netherlands.  Many Americans think that national health care […]

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    Soft Drink War Goes National — From Beyond Chron

    October 5, 2012

    Soft Drink Wars Go National by Suzanne Gordon‚ Oct. 02‚ 2012  Beyond Chron On both coasts, and in between, the US is awash in soft drinks this election season. In […]

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    Atul Gawande and The Cheesecake Factory

    September 4, 2012

    Let Them Eat Cheesecake By Suzanne Gordon The other day, at the suggestion of Boston surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande, my husband and I made a lunchtime visit […]

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    New Study on Cost Escalators in Healthcare

    September 20, 2011

    I have just written this article for the great blog Beyond Chron that Randy Shaw edits out in San Francisco. Here it is,http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=9532 but check out Beyond [...]

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    Maybe We Should Pay Doctors Not to Operate

    June 21, 2011

    The patient was a 70-year-old woman who’d been struggling with two different types of cancers for at least eight years.  For most of them, she’d been on dialysis, first every […]

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