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I am optimistic about the enormous potential technology holds for improving America's health care system. Thanks to the hard work being done by the nation's talented corps of biomedical researchers and engineers, we are making unprecedented progress in expanding the frontiers of medicine and finding new and better ways to deliver care. In addition to recognizing that our nation is home to the world's greatest medical and scientific research minds we must also acknowledge that America's free market economy is the engine driving our nation's ability to develop modern and innovative technology. Without the incentives offered by a competitive marketplace, inventors and investors would have little reason to risk resources on finding the next breakthroughs. While I believe that America's ability to continue to innovate will require a strong and vibrant open marketplace, I also believe that the federal government can and must play a critical role in helping to spur further advances in the development and adoption of health care technology.
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Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis , Países em Desenvolvimento/economia , Infecções/epidemiologia , Cooperação Internacional , Programas Nacionais de Saúde/economia , Medicina Tropical , Pré-Escolar , Humanos , Infecções/microbiologia , Infecções/parasitologia , Programas Nacionais de Saúde/organização & administração , Pobreza , Estados Unidos , GuerraRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the challenges facing the U.S. health care system between now and 2013. SUMMARY: Between now and 2013, the American health care system will need to make major changes to successfully address Medicare's funding challenges. Making the patient a partner in care, developing systems that promote and reward prevention efforts, and ensuring that health care purchasers understand and pursue value will be key. The growing prevalence of diabetes and cardiometabolic conditions is one area in which concerted efforts are needed.
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Atenção à Saúde/tendências , Planos de Assistência de Saúde para Empregados , Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde , Prioridades em Saúde , Humanos , Prevenção Primária , Opinião Pública , Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Health Affairs founding editor John Iglehart interviews HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, who calls for closer integration of health policy and foreign policy, with the aim of improving the lives of vulnerable populations and serving the best interests of the United States. Thompson also discusses the indelible impressions of his travels to Afghanistan, Africa, and Iraq; the Medicare drug discount card program; and more.
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Saúde Global , Política de Saúde , Indicadores Básicos de Saúde , Afeganistão , África , Seguro de Serviços Farmacêuticos , Internacionalidade , Iraque , Pessoas sem Cobertura de Seguro de Saúde , Medicare , Estados Unidos , Populações VulneráveisRESUMO
As great as the American health care system is, it can be even better. America has a vision for health care that builds on its strength: competition in a free economy. In the American vision, physicians can focus on the quality of their care, not the quantity of their paperwork. The individual who chooses to work in health care, does so because he/she desires to keep people healthy. It is believed that the more information and choices people have, the healthier they are, therefore the vision is to give people more and better information and more choices so they can preserve and improve their health. The responsibility to keep Americans strong, healthy, and independent, should and does not stop at the water's edge as life and liberty are the fundamental birthright, not just of Americans, but of all mankind. Improving people's health, and in fact enlisting people in improving their own health and their families' health, is one of the greatest projects the international healthcare community can undertake. And the more choices and information people are given, the healthier they will be.