An important idea is getting its test run in America: the creation of intensive outpatient care to target hot spots, and thereby reduce over-all health-care costs.
The Senate's sergeant-at-arms says the number of threats reported to him rose markedly in 2010, as the furore over health-care reform reached its climax.
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Mr Obama's diplomacy, bolstered by his success over health-care reform, has in fact secured real gains, even if they are more modest than all the hoopla suggests.
The changes emphasize managed care over fee-for-service care, with a goal of having nearly the entire Medicaid population under some kind of managed care by 2014.
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This also encourages over-insurance and over-consumption of health care.
Mr Rudd proposes that Canberra almost double, to 60%, its share of hospital financing, and take over all aged-care costs.
Most health economists agree that the tax advantage leads workers to purchase inefficiently generous insurance plans, and therefore to over-consume medical care.
Nevertheless, she has struggled to formulate policy in some key areas: witness the controversy within the opposition over her health-care reform plans.
Under a new labor contract, the UAW will take over a health-care trust fund to pay for union retirees' health care starting in 2010.
She argues for federal support for child care and after-school care, and control over flex-time for employees whose long hours usually come at the expense, emotionally and financially, of their families.
We now have - the state of Massachusetts is now saddled with a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar debt over his government-mandated health care system.
The debates over government-run health care frequently have invoked the experience of the British and Canadian health services.
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But America's doctors can run only so far: over 90% of them have some dealings with managed-care companies, since over two-thirds of their patients are enrolled in them.
High tax and pro-regulation blue states seem to want even more government control over health care, including a single-payer health care system.
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Stephen Dorrell's Health Committee was, as he put it, engaged in "real-time legislating" as the coalition ran into trouble over the Health and Social Care Bill - with the Conservative former health secretary emerging as something of an arbiter of the government's proposals.
Also weighing on Obama and his aides as he decides how to proceed is the unpleasant memory of previous dust-ups over contraception, including an election-year spat over an element of Obama's health care overhaul law that required most employers to cover birth control free of charge to female workers as a preventive service.
This would take over responsibility for the health-care obligations and would be administered by trustees appointed by the union.
Two income families are becoming the norm, and parental responsibilities are increasingly shuffled over to schools or day-care centres.
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She was surprised when friends who had politely discussed health-care reform over dinner later grew much more antagonistic when they continued the argument online.
If true, they could result in a similar situation to the one that befell Tenet early last decade when it was accused of using Medicare outlier payments to systematically over-bill the government health care plan.
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In general, the goodies have come less in the form of pay rises (too visible), than in over-generous pensions and health care, early retirement and the sort of restrictive practices that were chased out of the private sector years ago.
The Trust said it had worked closely with the hospital and the Clinical Commissioning Group - the group of GPs who have taken over the running of the local primary care trust - to resolve the issue.
"They understand we don't need to re-fight this battle over health care, " he said.
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So they hand their health-care payment data over to companies that analyze the patterns and tell them how to reduce their health-insurance spending.
"We only expected weakness in the over-the-counter segment, but other areas, including oral care and wound care were weaker than we anticipated, " Conover said.
With our longer lives, two-thirds of people over age 65 will need some kind of long-term care, and many of us aren't prepared for it.
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For this week the trustees who oversee Medicare, the government's health-care programme for over 40m elderly and disabled Americans, said the programme will be bankrupt by 2019, seven years sooner than previously thought.
This is -- health care is -- the law will be implemented over the course of many years.
Currently all over-sixties are eligible for free prescriptions and dental care, but the changes would mean only those in full-time retirement would qualify.
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