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Salon.com May 2, 2002 Fran Smith	Bush's band-aid approach A prestigious, congressionally mandated report has found that minority Americans receive glaringly inferior medical care. The Bush response: Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day...
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006	Marketing to Professionals: Ensuring Equality An interview with the National Medical Association president and medical director of the Northwest Indiana Dialysis Center on the racial issues surrounding enrollment of seniors in Medicare Part D, targeted advertising and promotion, and participation of minorities in clinical trials.
Salon.com October 6, 2000 Annie Murphy Paul	"An American Health Dilemma" By W. Michael Byrd & Linda A. Clayton Long before the horror of the Tuskegee experiments, blacks were suspicious of the white medical establishment -- with good reason...
Managed Care November 2000 Patrick Mullen	Don't be fooled Don't be fooled, warns noted health care economist J.D. Kleinke: High-quality care costs more, not less. The Internet will increase demand for the best care...
Managed Care July 2000	Lee N. Newcomer joins Vivius The former senior VP for health policy at UnitedHealth Group joins a company that aims to shift power from HMOs to patients and physicians.
Managed Care September 1999	Selling The Electronic Patient Chart: A Conversation With Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D. This physician and his backers are making a $100 million bet that electronic patient records, and widespread access to them through the Internet, are not far away for most practices.
Salon.com December 1, 1999 Annie Murphy Paul	Painting insanity black Why are there more black schizophrenics?
Managed Care December 2000 Patrick Mullen	Employer Demands Will Change Healthcare The CEO of a large Florida employer coalition insists that the information that companies are beginning to demand will force the industry to change...
American Family Physician November 1, 2000 Allen L. Hixon & Ronald W. Chapman	Medicine and Society Healthy People 2010: The Role of Family Physicians in Addressing Health Disparities...
Managed Care March 2000	Tracking the Tracker of Health Care's Trends The president of the Medical Group Management Association encourages changes that would bring physician practice and medical record-keeping in step with the times, and decries the lack of medical standards across plans.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2011 Elizabeth O. Coulton	Clinical Trial Issues Not Just Black and White The selection of clinical trial participants must meld with the changing demographics of America if industry is to improve medicines that work for patients.
Managed Care October 2002 MargaretAnn Cross	Tracking Disparities in Care Having employer-sponsored benefits does not guarantee good service. Differences in race, education, and income are also factors.
Managed Care July 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Lucien L. Leape, M.D. The way to reduce errors in health care is to change systems, says this Harvard educator. Punishment encourages people to cover up...
Managed Care August 2007 Patrick Mullen	Bringing Guidelines into the Real World An interview with Jim Schibanoff, editor-in-chief of Milliman Care Guidelines, regarding the current state of the art technology behind guidelines, and how their use might evolve over the next several years.
Managed Care November 2006	Primed to Take on Challenges to PBM's This CMO of a pharmacy benefits manager wrestles with some of insurance's most taxing issues. Price, of course. And here come biologics!
Managed Care August 2000 David Classen, M.D.	He Puts Patient Safety First By Bucking Conventional Wisdom This versatile physician holds the view that the Institute of Medicine actually understated the number of medical errors. He also doubts that the usual prescriptions for reducing errors will be effective.
American Family Physician February 1, 2005 Searight & Gafford	Cultural Diversity at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Family Physicians When considering therapeutic options, physicians should consider that members of many cultural groups prefer that family members, rather than patients, make treatment decisions.
Managed Care November 2005 Patrick Mullen	This Biologics Industry Spokesman Knows That Health Plans Can Only be Won Over by the Financial Argument. Biotech's focus is expanding from products that treat relatively rare diseases to treatments for conditions that affect much larger populations, including various cancers, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma because of health plan costs.
Managed Care May 2001 Patrick Mullen	Jeff Goldsmith Deny the increasing importance of the Internet at your peril, says the noted health care futurist. Faster connections, smarter applications are needed...
Managed Care April 2000	Advocate says: Physicians, Hospitals To Lose Clout And Numbers The colorful president of the People's Medical Society foresees fewer hospitals, more DM, "teledocs," and an end to legislation by body part.
American Family Physician April 15, 2006 Liz Smith	Newsletter Medicaid Cost Sharing and Premiums May Reduce Physician Revenues... AMA Supports Amendment on Cuts to Medicare Physician Payments... Increase in Candidates Matched into Family Medicine Residencies... etc.
Managed Care August 2001	Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply...
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Roger O. Crockett	For Blacks, Progress without Parity Fewer are poor, but blacks are no closer to economic equality
Salon.com May 30, 2000 David Horowitz	The latest civil rights disaster Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea for black people -- and racist too.
Managed Care May 2000	Interview: John M. Eisenberg, M.D., M.B.A. New name -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -- new focus. The director says it's less about guidelines, more about preventing errors.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2011	To Screen or Not to Screen? What do our genetics tell us about our predisposition to certain diseases? What does this mean for pharmaceutical companies?
Reason November 2008 Michael C. Moynihan	A Transformation on Race Two new books, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal, by Randall Kennedy, and Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness, by John L. Jackson, Jr., discuss America's quiet but radical shift in liberal ideas about race.
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2006 Emmett D. Carson	The Black/Brown Divide There is much that foundations can do to improve relations between Mexican and African Americans. By creating a shared dialogue, foundations can assist African and Mexican Americas in finding and acting on their mutual self-interest.
Managed Care November 2000	Rise in employer-based coverage spurs drop in ranks of uninsured The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from 44 million in 1998 to 42 million in 1999, thanks in large part to a boost in the share of employers offering job-based coverage...
Managed Care October 2000 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Steven B. Epstein, J.D. This pioneering medical legal authority says health plans and physicians should stop fighting over scraps the government throws them...
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin	Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty.
Managed Care April 2004	What's Past is Prologue? Don't Bet on It Many things that were supposed to happen -- like electronic medical records -- didn't, this health care futurist reminds us. Tomorrow needs to be shaped.
Managed Care March 2005	'This Country Cannot Continue With the System We Now Have' As a vice president of Pfizer Health Solutions, a major disease management company, John Sory knows how difficult it is to bring systematic care to the chronically ill. He discusses Pfizer's work with Florida's Medicaid program.
HBS Working Knowledge February 13, 2012 Carmen Nobel	The Case Against Racial Colorblindness Research by Harvard Business School's Michael I. Norton and colleagues shows that attempting to overcome prejudice by ignoring race is an ineffective strategy that -- in many cases -- only serves to perpetuate bias.
Managed Care March 2001	Docs Spend More Time, Not Less, With Patients Now Confounding conventional wisdom, researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine have found that the spread of managed care during the past decade has not reduced the amount of time spent with patients...
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Al Topin	Less Selling, More Time What can happen when pharmaceutical reps focus on the physician-patient conversation?
Managed Care June 2007	A Conversation with Jonathan Weiner, DrPH: Mixing Population-Based Care With Market Controls The United States' health care system needs consumer and market controls to succeed, but it can't rely on only those two factors.
Managed Care September 2000	Interview: Peter Boland Will the electronic revolution overthrow managed care? Not necessarily, but it may help define a new role for MCOs not far in the future...
Managed Care April 2007	A Conversation With Emad Rizk, MD: Disease Management Beyond the Call Center The man who heads McKesson Health Solutions, the third largest disease management program in the country, says it's time to roll out a new model.
Salon.com April 28, 2001 Cathy Young	Secrets and lies The most pernicious thing about racial preferences is the culture of concealment that they spawn...
Managed Care May 2006	They Wrote the Book on Fixing the System How could the largely private U.S. health care system, characterized by arguably more competition than any other health care system in the world, be performing so poorly?
Managed Care May 2002 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Thomas Scilly In a candid, wide-ranging interview, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator counsels patience in solving the myriad problems of health care. A fix could take 20 years
Managed Care October 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Pharmacists in Need The executive vice president and CEO of the American Pharmaceutical Association says pharmacists are being inundated and need help...
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
American Family Physician July 15, 2005 Carrie Morantz	Newsletter AMA, AAFP Act to Protect Patients' Access to Prescriptions... AHRQ Releases Updated Guide to Clinical Preventive Services... HHS Awards $80.5 Million in Grants to Reduce Infant Mortality Rates... etc.
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Jackie Stevens	Does capitalism make you sick? Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease.
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	Ethnic Personalities Apparent Online An examination of the African-American, white, and English-speaking Hispanic Internet population revealed as much diversity online as there is offline.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2013 Joseph Saba	New Rules for a New Africa Declining revenue growth in the United States and Europe have sent pharmaceutical companies in search of opportunities in the BRICs and other emerging economies. Now, companies are finally turning their attention to Africa.
Managed Care April 2000 Karen L. Trespacz, J.D.	League of Their Own: What Makes a Winning IPA? In a familiar cartoon, a professor writes long, learned equations on a blackboard. To connect the profundities on either end, he writes in the middle, "Then a miracle occurs." IPAs, done well, are the miracles that connect the ends of health care.