Posted By: Steven Lipstein 
Date Posted: November 22nd, 2011 Categories: Health Care
Earlier this month, I shared my thoughts in response to a recent editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that questioned the tax exempt status at nonprofit hospitals. It focused on the differences in how earnings are used and distributed by for-profit corporations as contrasted with non-profit hospitals such as those within BJC. But it is [...]
Posted By: Make Medicine Better Date Posted: August 4th, 2011 Categories: Health Care Reform Reform
Questions: What are some of your ideas on how Medicare and Medicaid can be fixed? How fixable are they, and what problems and hurdles need to be overcome? Jeff Fee, president and CEO, Providence St. Patrick Hospital (Missoula, Mont.). We have to have a capitalistic model or a model more analogous to the public education [...]
Posted By: Steven Lipstein Date Posted: March 14th, 2011 Categories: Health Care
Teach for America (TFA) Week was Feb. 21 to 25. Once again, I had the good fortune to be invited into the classroom of a TFA corps member, Mr. Joe Hays, who teaches fifth grade at Herzog Elementary in North St. Louis City. Mr. Hays is atypical of TFA Corps members. For one, he is [...]
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