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  • In the UK's health system, rationing isn't a dirty word

    Ezra Klein

    January 28, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom's health-care system – which has been lauded as one of the most equitable models for care – is built around a government agency that decides "which treatments are worth covering, and for whom." Although the measures used to determine these recommendations are controversial and the agency doesn't always sustain public trust in their decisions, the overall outcome has increased both social solidarity and life expectancy.

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  • If this was a pill, you'd do anything to get it

    Ezra Klein

    April 28, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

    *Medical research has done wonders to rid populations of diseases; however, the U.S. health care system has failed to appropriate the right resources to Medicare patients with one or more chronic conditions. Health Quality Partners in Doylstown, PA enrolls Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and hospitalization and sends a trained nurse to see them on a routine basis, whether they are healthy or sick. As a result, the HQP program has reduced hospitalizations and cut Medicare costs.

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