Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the United States less than 25 percent of newly minted doctors go into this field and only a tiny fraction, 4.8 percent, set up shop in rural areas, according to a study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and...
A new survey commissioned by The King's Fund with Doctors.net.uk (DNUK) has revealed significant scepticism among doctors about the government's proposed health reforms. - Less than 1 in 4 doctors believe that the government's proposed reforms will improve patient care. - Just over 1 in 5...
The most vulnerable in society must not lose out in the new proposed welfare reform package announced by the government , Unite, the largest union in the country, has warned. Unite said that the proposals unveiled by the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith merited consideration...
The Associated Press: "While Democrats hail the sweeping legislation as the greatest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare, they also fear that seniors won't see it that way for this fall's elections. Indeed, Republicans have portrayed the overhaul as a raid on Medicare - a bedrock...
Kaiser Health News editors and reporters talked Monday with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle about health reform's current dynamics, strategies, key issues and chances of passage. Daschle was nominated by President Barack Obama to be secretary of Health and Human Services and the White...
Kaiser Health News editors and reporters talked Monday with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle about health reform's current dynamics, strategies, key issues and chances of passage. Daschle was nominated by President Barack Obama to be secretary of Health and Human Services and the White...
Politico: "State lawmakers in at least three dozen states are pushing ahead with a series of measures aimed at pre-empting whatever might come out of Washington. On the left, Democrats in the California Senate recently approved a measure to establish a state-run, single-payer health care system...