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The Eisenhower Principle

The Health Care Blog

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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The NHS 10 year plan.

Sheffield DPH

I must stress these are my views as a jobbing public health professional and just that. There is going to be a crisis in the next 20 years in health care delivery. We mostly ignored the recommendations of the 2 nd (Public Health) and 3 rd (social care) reports. We all live in hope. I am (very) often asked what my views are.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. Not into health. Of that there is no doubt. This was good.