The doctors we interviewed agreed that getting the best care means being empowered but not obnoxious.
But, improved care means many more premature babies are surviving - especially those born after 25 weeks.
Ryan grasps that allowing more free enterprise in health care means greater benefits for all and lower medical costs.
Consumer-driven health care means (to me) that consumers have more financial responsibility and more ability to decide how their health care dollar is spent.
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Paying for coordinated care means that every single provider is now united on being responsive to the needs of a single person: the patient.
In cancer, best-supported care simply means caring for patients' symptoms after options for treatment have run out.
And council's failure to understand how voluntary and private sector organisations can provide services, such as social care, means they don't understand the implications of cutting their budgets now.
This is not simply because they deserve to be heard but because their experiences can bring about real change for those to whom good care often means the most.
But back when the NHS was set up in 1948, health was seen as a complete responsibility of the state, whereas care was means-tested, and very much the domain of the family and the local community.
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But we also need to attack the underlying drivers of health care spending, which means not paying for care of little or no value.
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Vulnerable people are going without care and that means their conditions are worsening and they are ending up in hospital and costing the government more.
From 2014, the Department of Social Care will introduce means testing.
That means qualified care workers called to the person's house to bathe, feed or provide medication.
It means taking care of your body by getting active and eating the right foods.
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However, evidence shows that government-funded care is by no means a guarantee of better health outcomes.
Remember: lower payment to providers means less access and less access means less care.
That means I care about doctors and other medical professionals, hospitals, Medicare, HMOs, and of course, health reform.
But it also means taking care of our veterans and their families.
Younger adults with disabilities are less likely to have such assets, and as a result get care free through the means-tested system.
Any increase in home care wage for caregivers means more money flowing out of the Social Security check or retirement savings of seniors.
This, combined with increased demand for social care in particular, means that we have no choice but to cut around a third of our budget.
Like so many families of Sichuan orphans, they refuse to put them up for adoption but do not have the means to care for them, either.
Our finances negatively affect our health, which in turn means higher health care expenses.
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Emily Cox, one of the Express Scripts researchers, says this means scarce health care dollars may be going to the wrong place.
And it would raise a question mark over the means testing of social care.
This means that the skin care business is more profitable for Estee Lauder than its other businesses.
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"Child friendly means both good medical care and staff that work well with babies and children, " Petrack says.
Practically speaking, what that means is that health care benefits just got a little more expensive for those employers.
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