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Tag: Robert Blendon
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Health
Reaching people where they live and die
Robert Blendon examined the divide among Americans over vaccine mandates.
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Nation & World
Should Medicare for All be Democrats’ top priority?
Health care experts discussed whether revolutionary change to a single-payer national health insurance plan or more incremental change from tweaking the ACA is preferable should Democrats pick up power in November.
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Health
Even among the insured, cost of illness can be devastating
Professor Robert Blendon of Harvard Chan School led discussion of a new poll that shows devastating costs in serious illness even among patients with health insurance.
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Nation & World
Opioid crisis shadows rural America
A Harvard Chan School panel reacted to a report that lists the opioid crisis and the economy as top concerns for Americans in rural areas.
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Health
States hold the power on health care, experts say
A Harvard Chan School forum discussed the stakes for U.S. health care in the midterm elections, including the prospect of Medicaid expansion.
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Health
Opioid epidemic top priority for surgeon general
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the opioid crisis is his top priority, but that showing the effects of the nation’s poor health on economic growth and national security are also key.
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Nation & World
Racial discrimination still rules, poll says
A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.
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Science & Tech
The high price of workplace stress
Experts discuss findings from a new Harvard T.H. Chan School survey about how workers say their jobs affect their health, and what companies can and should be doing to help.
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Health
Inequality runs deeper than health law
The Affordable Care Act has narrowed health disparities along class and race lines, but not nearly as much as needed.
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Health
Keeping adults in the game
In response to a recent poll that found most adults who played sports when they were younger stopped doing so as they aged, a panel of experts convened at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health explored how to keep adults in the game.
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Health
Another turning point for Obamacare
Panelists at the Harvard Chan School weighed the possible implications of the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
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Health
Confronting the creep of opioid abuse
Specialists in care and policy came together at the Harvard Chan School to trade ideas on combating opioid abuse.
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Health
Putting health in context
Panelists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined social disparities that make some people more likely to end up sick than others.
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Science & Tech
The mess left by stress
A new report says many Americans are feeling high levels of stress, and a forum addressed how they might deal with it.
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Health
Other unknowns in health care rollout
Politics and change are the only sure things ahead in the continued implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a panel of experts at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Health
Green light for Obamacare
Health care specialists discussed post-election Obamacare, including potential bumps in the road, in a panel talk at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Nation & World
Balky states likely to join Medicaid expansion
Experts speaking at The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health discussed the health care reform law Friday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of its core but struck down drastic penalties for states that don’t participate in a major expansion of Medicaid.
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Health
Win for Obama, but no let-up in debate
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday upholding the basis of national health care reform is far from the last word on the topic, Harvard faculty members said, and merely raises the curtain on act two: November’s general election.
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Health
Health reform in the crosshairs
With health care costs set to gobble up more of the federal budget, analysts say that additional reforms are inevitable, though national indecision over what they should look like could mean a rocky path ahead.
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Health
Hard fight ahead
Experts participating in an HSPH event expressed hope for rapid progress against Alzheimer’s disease even as they acknowledged that there’s little medical science can do today to help patients.
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Nation & World
Diagnosis on state health care
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick defended Massachusetts’ health care reforms, saying during an appearance at The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health that they’ve successfully extended coverage to 98 percent of state residents.
