Part 'D' for defective' - The Medicare drug benefit chaos

Article Abstract:

Enrollment for Medicare Part D is falling far short of expectations because of its strange design, and though officials in the Bush administration boasted that 25 million people are receiving benefits through this plan, the government's data reveal that about 20 million of them already had adequate drug coverage. Besides the poor conception of the plan and its functioning, the government is ill-equipped to coordinate the complexity it created and the private companies who are involved in shaping the public program are too fragmented to fulfill this vital public health function.

Analysis, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Medicare Part D

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Health savings accounts - The ownership society in health care

Article Abstract:

The Health Savings Account (HSA) is considered the perceptible representation of the goal of ownership society envisaged by President George Bush, as it involves individual and not collective responsibility for the management and financing of health care. HSAs and other consumer-directed products are receiving widespread attention and thus are undergoing rapid growth.

Health services administration, Health savings accounts

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Zygote and "clonote" - the ethical use of embryonic stem cells

Article Abstract:

For some years, the U.S. government had not agreed to fund research on stem cells derived from human embryos. On August 9, 2001, President Bush proposed regulations permitting federal funding for research using stem cells from human embryos that were killed before that date.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Science & research, Research and Testing Services, Medical Research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Research Programs, Research, Stem cells, Medicine, Experimental, President of the United States

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