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Stevie Watts • From 1:1 to 1:Many—Humans, Artefacts, & Ecosystems Thinking
Professor William Hsiao, the Harvard economist, has helped design health care systems for more than a dozen nations. He says the creation of a national health care system involves political, economic, and medical decisions, but the primary decision to be made is a moral one.
T. R. Reid • The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Philosophers David Hume and William James both understood the smallness of the individual human mind compared to the vast expanse of nature and society, and they emphasized the irrationalities of the human mind when facing the daily problems put before us. If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified
... See moreOne approach might be to establish ACO payment based on performance indicators that measured health and progress on social determinants of health. Examples may include the percent of an ACO’s population that is at a healthy body weight, is not depressed, is employed, is housed, or is on track to graduate from high school or college. Measures would
... See moreElizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
What we fear in the Norwegian health care system is a development where you care for chronic problems by hospitalizing patients. The idea [in Norway] is to try to manage people in local communities, outside hospitals.