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The Slaughterhouse Mentality

Posted on March 19, 2013 1:02 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

In this crazy world of health care costs where those in CEO seats think health care should be run like the manufacturing industry, it’s rare to find someo...

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The Whisper Game

Posted on November 21, 2012 11:33 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

Remember the old children’s game of sitting in a circle and passing secrets from person to person and finding out, once the secret had been passed around ...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Posted on July 22, 2012 6:30 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The discussion of the problems with our health care system and reform sometimes brings out the best in us and sometimes the worst. ProPublica is a web site whi...

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Seven Myths of Health Care Financing

Posted on April 8, 2012 10:41 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

When we wrote Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know all those years ago, we concentrated on explaining how we thought health care costs had been forc...