Return to President’s Message1 Catlin, et al. “National Health Spending In 2006: A Year Of Change For Prescription Drugs.” Health Affairs, January/February 2008. (http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/1/14).
Return to President’s Message2 Brownlee S. Overtreated (New York: Bloombury USA, 2007), 24–25.
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Return to President’s Message5 Asch SM, Kerr EA, Keesey J, et al. “Who is at greatest risk for receiving poor quality health care?” New England Journal of Medicine, 345 (II): 1147–1156, 2006.
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Return to President’s Message7 Brownlee, 26.
Return to President’s Message8 “A Green Tipping Point,” TIME, Oct. 12, 2007. (www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1670871,00.html).
Return to President’s Message9 Institute of Medicine. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington: National Academies Press, 1999.
Return to President’s Message10 Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Keystone ICU, “The Results to Date.” (www.mha.org/mha_app/keystone/icu_overview.jsp).
Return to President’s Message11 National Journal Poll Track. “2007 Polling on Health Care,” CBS poll conducted Sept. 14–16, 2007. (http://nationaljournal.com/members/polltrack/2007/issues/07healthcare.htm#4).
Return to President’s Message12 Comparative data from Commonwealth Fund. “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care,” May 15, 2007. (www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=482678), and “World’s Best Medical Care?” New York Times editorial, August 12, 2007.
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Return to President’s Message16 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (www.oecd.org).
Return to President’s Message17 Asch, Kerr, Keesey, et al.
Return to President’s Message18 Rosenberg H. Discovering the Present Three Decades in Art, Culture & Politics (London: The University of Chicago Press, 1973).