JGrimes
Apparently, Americans are still OK with the idea of taxing rich people to pay for part of the big health-care overhaul now being debated in Washington. But they really don’t like the idea of requiring everyone to buy insurance.
In the latest WSJ/NBC poll, 68% of respondents said raising taxes on families making more […]
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JGrimes
Most people still support President Obama’s health-reform plan, according to a WSJ-NBC poll released late yesterday. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they favor the plan supported by the president, while 35% said they opposed it — figures that are basically unchanged from a poll fielded in April.
The poll asked respondents whether they thought […]
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JGrimes
Roche just said it’s raising its Genentech tender offer to $93 a share. Nobody expected Genentech shareholders to bite on Roche’s previous, $86.50 offer. Will they sell for $93?
It’s still a lot less than the $112 a share that Genentech’s board asked for llate ast year. On the other hand, the world has […]
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June Shaffer
We’re almost two years into this blogging business, and we’re still somewhat surprised when people notice what we’re doing.
Take, for instance, our appearance on the short list of best medical Weblogs of 2008 in the fifth annual contest run by the nifty site Medgadget.
Somebody out there nominated us. We don’t know who. […]
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JGrimes
Almost everyone seems to have an idea for overhauling health care in this country. But who can be trusted to get the job done?
Americans are divided on whether Democrats are up to the task, a WSJ.com poll shows, with 45% saying they trust Democrats and 44% saying they don’t. A solid majority–63%–don’t trust […]
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JGrimes
Americans love rating restaurants, movies and sometimes each other. Now they’re warming up to the idea of measuring and comparing the quality of medical care, but they’re not sure such ratings should affect hospitals’ and medical groups’ pay.
So says the latest WSJ Online/Harris Interactive poll, conducted earlier this month. Some 60% of respondents […]
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JGrimes
Testing for Alzheimer’s disease seems like it can’t hurt, but some say it can, the WSJ’s Shirley S. Wang writes.
The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, for one, holds a national memory-screening day each year. “What we’re trying to do now is make memory screening a part of the actual physical process,” Eric Hall, the […]
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