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    Navigating the New Health Care Delivery System

    Technology is changing how patients navigate their health care experience. New survey data shows how e-patients are using social media to connect to each other and to information.

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    A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

    The nation’s 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants are more geographically dispersed than in the past, according to a new demographic and geographic analysis of this group that includes population and labor force estimates for each state.

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    Support For Health Care Overhaul, But It’s Not 1993

    Overview Most Americans believe that the nation’s health care system is in need of substantial changes. But there is less support for completely rebuilding the health care system than there was in April 1993, during the early stage of the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful effort to revamp health care. Still, the public continues to favor the […]

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    Support For Health Care Overhaul, But It’s Not 1993

    Overview Most Americans believe that the nation’s health care system is in need of substantial changes. But there is less support for completely rebuilding the health care system than there was in April 1993, during the early stage of the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful effort to revamp health care. Still, the public continues to favor the […]

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    Medpedia’s Potential

    Medpedia launched this week, prompting questions from many corners about how it fits in to the current realities of the health care world.

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    Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media

    At a time when health care is a major public policy issue, how have the U.S. media covered the complex subject of health? A new report from PEJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation examines those questions.

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    Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks

    Hunter Gatewood likens early adopters to “happy dogs in a pile of sticks” and says that in order to spread change you need to recruit the “hesitant cat, waiting to see what works.”