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As reported by MSNBC (find it here), an excess of 100,000 preventable deaths occur in the US annually because we fail

Democrats are trying to balance cost and coverage in their various health reform bills, but are not succeeding. The problem is obvious: if you increase coverage, you increase cost.

So said Karen Pollitz, research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, in an article published in the Washington Post about why health insurance cherry picking will likely

That's what Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has called the proposed health reform package now under discussion in Washington DC (find the Washington Post story

These are Mike Leavitt's words, as he continues to speak about health system reform around the nation.

Deseret News editorial page editor Jay Evensen recaps former HHS Secretary (and former Utah Governor) Mike Leavitt's recent speech to the National Conference of Editorial Writers here in Salt Lake

The Salt Lake Tribune (reporters Heather May and Lisa Rosetta) did some excellent digging and reported that recently passed legislation in Utah is merely a gesture (find the story

Check out this interesting approach to explaining health system reform (here).

That is how the Washington Post describes the product of the Senate Finance Committee deliberations (find it

Intersting question. What percentage of your health insurance premium do you think your health insurer should use to pay for your health benefit?