Nestle also has health-oriented brands like Lean Cuisine and Jenny Craig.
McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King (which parent Diageo (nyse: DEO - news - people ) wants to unload) are bludgeoning one another with ever-cheaper offerings as health-oriented upstarts like Salad Works and Panera Bread (nasdaq: PNRA - news - people ) nip at their heels.
The most recent edition of HWR, hosted by Jared Rhoads of the Lucidicus Project, contains the work of a number of left-of-center health policy types (and a few market-oriented types to boot), who often have interesting perspectives on health care because they are directly involved in the field.
There is still not a genuine, free-enterprise, consumer- oriented health care system.
Marsha Gold has a wide-ranging review of the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program at Health Affairs.
But Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of Weight Concern and a GP in Nottingham, said doctors had forgotten how great an influence lifestyle choices had on health, and were becoming more and more drug-oriented.
Giuliani advocates a market-oriented system, whereby people will buy health-care policies for themselves from private insurers.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a free-market oriented public policy organization that focuses on health care issues.
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Putting all federal employees on the exchanges would obliterate the most market-oriented insurance program run by the government, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, or FEHBP.
Investors have looked at Starbucks as a proxy for the health of the Chinese consumers, as has been the case with other consumer-oriented companies like Nike and Yum!
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Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) in every state to compete as a nonprofit-like entity against health care insurers.
The fact is, even in this depressed world situation, economies that are export oriented, high-tech and can expand domestic services - including mixed-economy health services - are growing.
Medtronic has long had to wrangle with Medicare, America's government-sponsored health insurance, to get it to cover the use of new devices, and to persuade short-term-oriented managed-care companies that expensive devices can yield long-term savings.
The senator talked about family oriented issues, such as the campaign's plans to provide health care to more Americans but he -- and Elizabeth Edwards -- also got personal, telling stories about their children and -- particularly -- their first date.
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