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Blogroll

• Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm (The New York Times)

• By Not Covering Uninsured Immigrants, Health Care Bills in Congress Are a Threat to Safety-Net Hospitals(The New York Times)

• Health Cuts With Little Effect on Care (The New York Times)

• State's Policy for Improved ER Access Works (Boston Globe)

• $600 Million from Stimulus Bill going Toward  Improving Community Health Care Centers & Medical Records (Washington Post)

• Wisconsin's Communitarian Infant Mortality Initiative (The New York Times)

• NYC Area Hospitals to Collaborate on Establishment of a Proton Beam Therapy Center (Crain's New York Business )

• Surgicenters Continue to Boom in Pennsylvania (The Philadelphia Inquirer )

• Study: Uninsured Trauma Victims Face Sky-High Death Rate (Sphere)

• Texas Deals with Legislation Limiting Reimbursement to Physician Owned Hospitals (The Dallas Morning News)

• Value of State Reporting of Hospital Outcomes Data Proven in Pennsylvania  (RWJ/Wall Street Journal)

• Maryland Reins In Hospital Costs by Setting Rates (Wall Street Journal)

• Los Angeles exemplifies "supply-sensitive medicine," as well as the costs of poverty (LA Times)

• The Dartmouth Atlas: Excess Treatment Costs Are Due to Excess Treatment (NEJM )

• Medical Errors Are Pervasive & Uncontrolled (The Houston Chronicle/ Hearst )

• A Stimulus Package for Public Health (L A Times )

• Wide Variation in Hospital Death Rates (USA Today )

• Debating the Merits of Medicare (The New York Times )

• States Fight Medicaid Expansion (The Wall Street Journal )
  

• Fed Plans Raise Questions About Continued Financial Support for Safety-Net Hospitals and Their Patients (The Dallas News )

• Massachusetts Looks into Whether Not-for-Profit Hospitals Are Providing Charity Care Equivalent to Their Tax Exemptions (The Boston Globe )
  
  

• Emergency Care for Stroke, Modelled After Trauma Care, Is Spreading (The Chicago Tribune )
  

• Book Review: What's Wrong with the American Healthcare Non-system (Health Affairs )

Our blogroll  provides links to blogs that provide interesting and timely content.
It is not an endorsement in any way of any specific blog.

	The Health Care Blog (NEJM)
	Health Affairs Blog
	The New York Times Health  & Wellness
	Kevin, M.D. Medical Weblog
	WSJ.com: Health Blog
	Healthcare Economist
	Running a Hospital
	Health Care Renewal
	Health Business Blog
	Managed Care Matters
	Health Disparities Blog
	Health Care Organizational Ethics Blog
	Covert Rationing Blog
	Hospital Impact

• Massachusetts Examines Relationship Between Public Reporting of Angioplasty Mortality and Its Utilization (The Boston Globe )
  
  

• States Wrestling With How to Regulate ASCs Under CON (Am. Med. News )
  
  

• Novel NJ Outreach Program Reduces Utilization of ER (The Philadelphia Inquirer
  

• South Carolina's CON Process Causes Hospitals to Negotiate Their Cardiac Surgery Applications Jointly (The State)
  

• Alabama Legislature Debates Ending CON.. Again (Birmingham News )
  
  

• SCHIP: Doctor-Owned Hospitals Win; Tobacco Companies Lose (Update on Stark Bill article below) (The Wall Street Journal

• New Stark Bill Might Outlaw Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals (The Wall Street Journal ) 

• Massachusetts Subjects Ambulatory Surgical Centers to CON (American Medical News ) 

• Texas Leads the Nation in Economic Rape of Its Community Hospitals (The Dallas Morning News )

• Hospital Wars in Mass: Outpatient Services and "the Marketplace" in the Suburbs of Boston (The Boston Globe )
  

• Is Cyberknife Covered by Medicare in Your State? (The New York Times )
  

• Five Myths About Our Health Care System (Washington Post)
  

• The Ultimate Safety Net: Public Health (The Sacramento Bee ): 
  

• New Freestanding Emergency Facilities Challenge Hospital ERs (U.S. News & World Report )
  

• Governor Palin Failed to Eliminate CON in Alaska (The Washington Post )
  

• New Regulations for MA Determination of Need (CON) Program Designed to Level The Playing Field for Hospitals (The Boston Globe)
  

• Surging into Bethlehem: "Surge Capacity " Becomes a Political Issue (The Washington Post )
  

• CON to Limit Proton Therapy in Michigan (The New York Times )
  

• HANYS Issues Report Card on Report Cards; Only Governmental Reports Rate an "A"
  

• FTC Supports Bill to Eliminate CON in Florida (Jacksonville Business Journal )
  

• "Single Specialty" Surgery Centers Now Exempt from CON in Georgia (The Jacksonville Times-Union )
  

• Protons and Pesos (The New York Times)