Health Care Touchstones: Cost and Quality Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/24-3/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 14 Jul 2022 22:09:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Health Care Touchstones: Cost and Quality Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/24-3/ 32 32 Time to Act on Health Care Costs https://issues.org/orszag/ https://issues.org/orszag/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/orszag/ Popular discussions of the long-term fiscal challenges confronting the United States usually misdiagnose the problem. They typically focus on the government expenses related to the aging of the baby boomers, with lower… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/orszag/feed/ 0 A New System for Preventing Bridge Collapses https://issues.org/p_lee/ https://issues.org/p_lee/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_lee/ On August 1, 2007, the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed catastrophically during rush hour, killing 13 people and severing a crucial connection across the Mississippi River. Before an investigation… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/p_lee/feed/ 0 Asian Successes vs. Middle Eastern Failures: The Role of Technology Transfer in Economic Development https://issues.org/pack/ https://issues.org/pack/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/pack/ In 1960, Korea, Taiwan, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt were in roughly the same economic position. Average per capita income was about $1,500 in 1995 U.S. dollars, and none of these… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/pack/feed/ 1 From Medical Malpractice to Quality Assurance https://issues.org/sloan/ https://issues.org/sloan/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/sloan/ Every decade or so, the United States is seized with a fervor to reform medical malpractice. Unfortunately, this zest is typically motivated by circumstances that have little to do with the fundamental… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/sloan/feed/ 1 Animal Migration: An Endangered Phenomenon? https://issues.org/wilcove-animal-migration-conservation-extinction/ https://issues.org/wilcove-animal-migration-conservation-extinction/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/wilcove/ Animal migrations are among the world’s most visible and inspiring natural phenomena. Whether it’s a farmer in Nebraska who stops his tractor on a cold March morning to watch a flock of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/wilcove-animal-migration-conservation-extinction/feed/ 0 Archives – Spring 2008 https://issues.org/archives-42/ https://issues.org/archives-42/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-42/ KATHERINE SHERWOOD, Golgi’s Door, mixed media on canvas, 20 × 20 inches, 2007.
Golgi’s Door
In 1873, Italian physician and scientist Camillo Golgi developed a method of staining nerve tissue that… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-42/feed/ 0 The R&D Future of Intelligence https://issues.org/berkowitz-3/ https://issues.org/berkowitz-3/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/berkowitz-3/ The United States has long depended on its capability to develop and use technology for collecting and analyzing intelligence in order to protect national security. Indeed, the intelligence community has a remarkable… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/berkowitz-3/feed/ 0 Environmental stalemate? https://issues.org/br_john/ https://issues.org/br_john/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_john/ The past decade and a half have been marked by bitter battles over environmental policy, forged in large part by fundamental disagreements about how to balance environmental and economic concerns. The result… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_john/feed/ 0 Can the Bomb Be Banned? https://issues.org/br_tucker-4/ https://issues.org/br_tucker-4/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_tucker-4/ Since the publication of his 1982 book The Fate of the World, a dark vision of the horrors of nuclear war that helped to launch the nuclear freeze movement, Jonathan Schell… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/br_tucker-4/feed/ 0 Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards https://issues.org/ferguson-2/ https://issues.org/ferguson-2/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/ferguson-2/ As events in Iran and elsewhere illustrate, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is confronting a crisis in its ability to detect nuclear weapons programs and to safeguard peaceful nuclear programs. This… Read More

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