Academic Perspective » Healthcare http://www.academicperspective.com Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:36:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Healthcare is No Free Market http://www.academicperspective.com/2010/03/15/healthcare-is-no-free-market/ http://www.academicperspective.com/2010/03/15/healthcare-is-no-free-market/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:11 +0000 Ben Drucker http://www.academicperspective.com/?p=902 View the Full Article on Academic Perspective

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“Our health care system is in need of major reform, but we need to go more in the direction of free enterprise and free market principles,” said Congressman Jimmy Duncan (R-TN). Tea party supporters, vocal opponents of what they call “ObamaCare”, echo the same sentiment: health care should be a free market. Democrats have taken [...]1 No related posts.]]> http://www.academicperspective.com/2010/03/15/healthcare-is-no-free-market/feed/ 7 The Year in Review 2009, Part 2: The Economy and Healthcare http://www.academicperspective.com/2010/01/10/the-year-in-review-2009-part-2-the-economy-and-healthcare/ http://www.academicperspective.com/2010/01/10/the-year-in-review-2009-part-2-the-economy-and-healthcare/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:00:22 +0000 Ben Drucker http://www.academicperspective.com/?p=860 View the Full Article on Academic Perspective

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With a new president, Barack Obama, Congress set out to tackle the president's two biggest goals: to repair the economy and pass healthcare reform. A year later, new healthcare bills have been passed and the economy is on its way to recovery. But all these changes happened with no shortage of fanfare. 2009 was marked by raucous healthcare debate, media controversies, and economic turmoil. [...]1 No related posts.]]> http://www.academicperspective.com/2010/01/10/the-year-in-review-2009-part-2-the-economy-and-healthcare/feed/ 0 Healthcare: Part 2. Congress’s Healthcare Bill http://www.academicperspective.com/2009/11/30/healthcare-part-2-the-congress-healthcare-bill/ http://www.academicperspective.com/2009/11/30/healthcare-part-2-the-congress-healthcare-bill/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:00:42 +0000 Jake Silberg http://www.academicperspective.com/?p=640 View the Full Article on Academic Perspective

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The healthcare debate this summer was marked by raucous shouting, grandstanding, and distortions of the plans being considered, but out of it emerged a healthcare proposal that has already passed in the House of Representatives and is currently under consideration in the Senate. [...]1 No related posts.]]> http://www.academicperspective.com/2009/11/30/healthcare-part-2-the-congress-healthcare-bill/feed/ 3 Healthcare: Part One. The American Healthcare System. http://www.academicperspective.com/2009/10/23/healthcare-part-one-the-american-healthcare-system/ http://www.academicperspective.com/2009/10/23/healthcare-part-one-the-american-healthcare-system/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000 Jake Silberg http://www.academicperspective.com/?p=168 View the Full Article on Academic Perspective

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Healthcare: Part 2. Congress’s Healthcare Bill “At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without universal health insurance.” This quote comes from Progressive Magazine, and was published in 1917. At that point, one attempt to reform the American healthcare system by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 had [...]1 No related posts.]]> http://www.academicperspective.com/2009/10/23/healthcare-part-one-the-american-healthcare-system/feed/ 17