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.
There is still not a genuine, free-enterprise, consumer- oriented health care system.
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.
Marsha Gold has a wide-ranging review of the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program at Health Affairs.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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