The Gospel of Life and the Vision of Health Care: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Bishops' Workshop, Dallas, Texas
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Reengineering Health Care: A Vision for the Future
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Can a Health Care Market Be Moral?: A Catholic Vision
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This book fills a large gap in Catholic social thought by assessing the use of market ideas and practices in the delivery of U.S. health care. Based on her long experience as a lawyer and state representative in helping needy people receive medical care, McDonough presents a sophisticated and nuanced evaluation of the market in light of recent debates among health care economists. The market is not evil, she says, but the invisible hand touted by Adam Smith cannot handle the job alone--government must take a more active role in distributing medical care to all citizens in the U.S. Her arguments are grounded in Catholic social teaching--a tradition that recognizes the value of competition and the market but insists that government provide universal health care--and attend, first and foremost, to its neediest citizens. The first two chapters analyze Catholic social thought and health care; chapters 3 and 4 explore market approaches to health care; chapter 5 summarizes a "value dimension" approach to health care, promulgated by Daniel Callahan (McDonough's intellectual mentor); and chapter 6 offers a Catholic vision of health care, one that allows for some market mechanisms--viz., private insurance, managed care, and co-payments--within a larger framework of justice and concern for the least advantaged. Central to McDonough's thesis is that the market cannot be moral of its accord. And one of the first questions policy makers must ask is this: What kinds of values should guide decisions about health care? What exactly are the ultimate goals of medicine? Something has to give; the system can't accommodate unlimited care for all persons. The answers aren't easy or obvious, but they will involve a consideration of shared values and fundamental justice that heretofore have been absent in the debate. Read more...
Health Care in the New Millennium: Vision, Values, and Leadership (Jossey-Bass Health Care Series)
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Health Care in the New Millennium is written by futurist Ian Morrison-author of The Second Curve and Future Tense and one of our nation's foremost health care analysts.In this provocative book, Morrison gives health care executives, doctors, and nurses a guided tour of what's in store for health care in the coming years and explains . . .
* Why our one-trillion dollar health care industry has so many unhappy stakeholders
* Why investor-owned health systems are failing
* Why so few market-based reforms work
* Why health care leaders need new visions of what is possible for the future
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UnitedHealthcare Introduces New Medicare Advantage Plan in Sacramento Area Members also can access outpatient care including lab, X-ray and physical therapy services at Sutter's health ancillary facilities. add vision and dental coverage for an additional monthly premium. UnitedHealthcare is the nation's largest company |
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Affordable Health Care Visionary to Appear at Innovation Conference In the years since he co-led the Task Force to Reform Health Care with Hillary Rodham Clinton, working to cover all Americans with affordable health insurance and hold down the cost of care, Magaziner has moved on. Today, he is CEO of his own |
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Ambulatory Healthcare Services announces the 1st Healthcare Quality Week In line with its commitment to providing quality healthcare for the community, Ambulatory Healthcare Services (AHS), a SEHA HealthSystem Facility, announced its celebration of the 1st Healthcare Quality Week under the slogan "United in Quality" from |
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US$4Billion Reasons to get Excited this World Sight Day ICEE, Vision CRC and Brien Holden Vision Institute now work closely to develop eye health and vision care research, education and public health initiatives. CEO of ICEE, Professor Brien Holden says current ICEE initiatives are moving forward rapidly to |
Alberta Health and Wellness Expands Long Standing Relationship with CGI with ...
Today announced the signing of a contract that
would see CGI continue to provide them with application maintenance
services and also includes the provision for additional application
development and business intelligence services. The initial contract
term runs through to March 31, 2015 and includes an option for
extension of up to six additional years. Won through a competitive
tender, this new agreement builds on an existing contract for
application management and managed services, first won by CGI in
2001.
As part of its five-year Health Action Plan, Alberta Health and Wellness is committed to continuously improving its electronic information management systems with ongoing measurement of its processes, procedures, tools and people. As its trusted IT services partner, CGI will deliver day-to-day application management support on over 100 applications, application development services and business intelligence services.
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National Health Partners, Inc. is a national healthcare savings organization that provides discount healthcare membership programs to uninsured and underinsured people through a national healthcare savings network called "CARExpress." CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors, sdentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and is comprised of over 1,000,000 medical professionals that belong to such PPOs as CareMark and Aetna. The company's primary target customer group is the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance of any kind. The company's secondary target customer group includes the millions of Americans who lack complete health insurance coverage.
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