A Congressional staff briefing on the state of health care in the US will take place on Tuesday March 24. The briefing will include the release of a new report, Primary Care Access: An Essential Building Block of Health Reform, which will reveal that nearly 60 million Americans are currently without a regular source of preventitive and primary health care. This is attributable to many factors, including economic instability, as well as the worsening shortage of primary care physicians and a growing scarcity of providers willing to treat the uninsured or publicly insured.
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Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 am
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March 23rd, 2009 at 7:41 am
People have figured out that they can get free health care and now they want socolized medicine because the news media and the government wants more control over tgheir lives.SHOW ME ONE SOCOLIZED NATIONS MEDICAL SYSTEM THAT HAS EVER WORKED AND I MIGHT SAY THERE IS A POSSIBILITY BUT YOU CANNOT SHOW ME ONE.
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:03 am
To who it may concern:
I Think it is atrocious that all Americans do not have health insurance. I know I lost my job after 17 years and I USED TO have great health insurance. Now, I don’t have any health insurance or dental insurance, ITS TERRIBLE. I couldn’t tell you the last time I had a mammogram. I only had two in my whole life.
Thank you,
Diane M Nelson