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Disclosure: Dr. Steffie Woolhandler MD MPH has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests
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What Dick Taught Me About Power
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Source: Dickman et al, Unpublished analysis of MEPS, NHES, NMES
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Minority Kids and Youth Get Little Psychiatric Care Outside of Prison Compared to whites kids and youths (age 0-34) Black and Latino kids and youths make about 50%fewer visits to psychiatrists; about 70 % fewer visits to psychologists; and about 70% fewer visits to social workers for mental health counselling. Source: Marrast, Woolhandler, Himmelstein – Prepublication Data based on analysis of MEPS – Numbers for each race and income group are combined in this slide
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Investor Ownership
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For-Profit Hospitals’ Death Rates are 2% Higher Source: CMAJ 2002;166:1399
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For-Profit Hospitals Cost 19% More Source: CMAJ 2004;170:1817
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For-Profit Dialysis Clinics’ Death Rates are 9% Higher Source: JAMA 2002;288:2449
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Medicare’s “Software” 18.9 Million Seniors Enrolled Within11 Months
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“Mandate” Model for Reform 1.Expanded Medicaid-like program Free for poor Subsidies for low income Buy-in without subsidy for others 2.Employer Mandate +/- Individuals 3.Managed Care / Care Management
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February 16, 1971
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Hospital Consolidation Rising
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“ I am firmly opposed to forced integration and I firmly believe that the doctrine of states’ rights should be maintained.” Source: Form letter to constituent, February 18, 1957 LBJ on Civil Rights, 1957
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