2000 Monthly Newsletters
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RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, December, 2000 (as a pdf file )
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Drug Spending Driving Insurance Increases
National Campaign For Rural Hospitals
HMOs Out Of Steam Or Just Getting Ready?
Helping Uninsured Helps Bottom Line
Wild Rose Cited As National CAH Model
Read Fine Print Before Going Whole Hog
EOH Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, November, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Wisconsin Proposes End To Wage Index Bias
Election Debate—Promises Without Reality
Cost Control Kitchen Just Got A Lot Hotter
Health Care Rationing—Not In My Backyard
Employee Benefits, A Consumer Approach
Rural Nurses Now Learn From Home
Health Care & Policy, A Clash Of Cultures
Demand Is For High Tech & High Touch
National Rural Health 2001 Policy Institute
Critical Access Hospital Update
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, October, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Health Care Dilemma For Politicians
The Political Dilemma for Providers
Grass Roots Medicare Suits Continue
Sound Bites Mislead On Drug Coverage
Capital Short For Electronic Med. Orders
Targeted Relief – The Health Services Corp
Cooperatives -- A Proud Wisconsin Tradition
Rural Immunizations In The Tropics
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, August, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Local Health Care Strengthens Communities
Medicare Justice Will Take a Bit Longer
Rural Issues Getting More Serious Face Time
The Perfect Storm--Part II
System Failure Hits Small Employers Hardest
Stand Alone Hospitals Back In Fashion
Competition Going Under The Microscope
WISC Network for Health Policy Research
Eye Examine Rules Out Pit Viper
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, July, 2000 (as a pdf file )
What America Thinks About The Uninsured
A Major Unknown Resource For Uninsured
The Election Needs To Be About Governing
Putting Unfair Medicare Payments On Table
Medicare & Rural Hospitals: A Visual Update
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Rural/Urban Differences Vary Substantially
The Wisconsin Healthy Heart Diet
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, June, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Health Care Safety Net Endangered
Statewide Medicare Initiative Pays Off
Another Medicare Wage Glitch Hurts Rural
RWHC Employment Opportunities
Rural Health Apprenticeship Opportunities
Wisconsin Coalition Aims At Medical Errors
The Value of Community Pharmacists
How To Start A Cooperative
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, May, 2000 (as a pdf file )
RWHC Nurse Excellence Award
Partners In Agricultural Health
Telecommunications Designed For CAHs
Wisconsin Using Anti-Rural Federal Index
When We Win Medicare Equity, What Next?
1st Medicare Justice Coalition Court Hearing
A Proposal to Save Rural Home Health
RWHC Seeks Health Information Manager
Bucky Badger’s Amazonian Transformation
Ed Harding the Administrator at Columbus
Online Glossary for Health Care Policy
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, April, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Medicare Fairness Rebellion Spreads
HMOs, Other Plans, More Alike Than Not
Elderly Dig Deep To Pay For Medical Care
Popular Perception Wrong Re Drug Costs
Lifestyle Enhancement Or Basic Healthcare?
Strong & Stoic Can Be Bad For Your Health
Giant, Competing Businesses Network
Bureaucracy Knows No Geography
Seinfeldists Develop Academic Discipline
American Healers In Need Of Healing
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, March, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Large Urban Hospitals Double Down Rurals
Medicare Redistribution Must Go Both Ways
Two Lobbies That Really Deserve Each Other
Vanishing HMOs Abandon Rural Residents
Not Exactly Walking The Talk
Employees To Get Health Plan Choice & Cost?
Consumers Will Use Data About Providers
Virtual Healthcare Becoming Reality
Not A Virtual HMO, But Mean
Eye On Health Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, February, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Purchasers Not Buying Behavioral Change
Good Medicine Is Good Business
Listening To Insured Workers
Into The Looking Glass--An Investor’s View
WI Credit Assessment Program Renewed
False & Real Threats To Social Security
Too Few Hospital Beds?
Rural Clot Busters
Wheelchair--The Sequel
Bringing Heart & Soul Back Into Medicine
A Guy’s View Of E-Mail
Rural Leaders Again The Early Innovators
Eye On Health cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, January, 2000 (as a pdf file )
Midwest Based Medicare Rebellion Spreads
Medicare Justice Coalition--How We Got Here?
BadgerCare--WI Legislature’s Work Not Done
Tobacco Money--Even New York Gets It Right
Loose Guns--The Tobacco Issue For 2000?
In A Shrinking World, AIDS Growth Chilling
Illegal Drug Labs Invest Rural Wisconsin
Mammography Task Force Update
Racial Effects On Life Expectancy
UW Medical School Seeks Rural & Community Leadership
The Wheelchair-Part I
Beyond Rural, Beyond Frontier, Is Jungle
RWHC Seeks EMS ConsultantEye On Health cartoons