'Public Health Policy'
Bush Health Initiative Fails the Children
In his annual State of the Union address last week, President George Bush outlined his 2007 priorities which focused largely on next steps in the Iraq war, expansion of renewable energy sources and a new tax-based proposal aimed to address the availability of health coverage for all Americans.
The President outlined a private-sector health care approach [...]
Center for Policy Alternatives
The Center for Policy Alternatives accurately describes itself as:
…the nation’s only nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to strengthen the capacity of state legislators to lead and achieve progressive change.
The CPA website has a number of extremely useful elements on it. For example, the State Action Blog contains a running commentary about recent progressive legislation enacted [...]
State Policy and Prescription Drug Prices
Are you interested in how the state of Alaska can help reduce the cost of prescription drugs to you and your family, fight misleading drug ads, and protect your medical records from commercial exploitation? Really, who would say “no”? Visit the website of the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices (NLARX) for the [...]
Medicare in Alaska and Drug Prices
Thank you Wikipedia for these fun facts about Medicare:
Medicare is a health insurance program administered by the United States government, covering people who are either age 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria. It was originally signed into law on July 30, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to Social Security [...]
Lets Make More Money by Selling More Medical Services!
There is a large advertisement in the December 4 issue of the Anchorage Daily News by Alaska Open Imaging Center. This advertisement, however, is not about the services provided by the imaging business, but rather it is a broad attack on the State of Alaska Certificate of Need Program. Here is a brief description [...]
The Alaska Health Care Responsibility Report.
There is no Alaska Health Care Responsibility Report, but there should be. This public policy will not solve the nation’s severe problem of lack of access to quality health care for tens of millions of Americans, but it is an important start. The Missouri Health Care Responsibility Report will present information about where recipients [...]
State Health Policy Resource
State legislatures across America are responding to a range of crises regarding health care quality, costs, and accessibility since the federal government seems incapable of significant reform in these life-and-death issues. There are few places where the interested legislator or health policy advocate or analyst can find a systematic review of this information, but [...]
Alaska Health Policy Forums
Center for
Advancing Faculty Excellence
Office of
Sponsored Research
Office of
Community Partnerships
invite you to the first of three community
forums on
Health and Healthcare in
Alaska
During the 2006-07 academic year,
UAA is hosting three community forums on Health and Healthcare in Alaska. The
goal of the series is to bring together key individuals from the university,
medical, government and Anchorage communities to [...]