Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative

1997 Monthly Newsletters


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December, 1997

Nation Needs Honest Debate on Uninsured
Preventing Mid-Night Fire Sales
NRHA Annual Policy Institute
Developing Relevant Health Policy
Nurse Practitioners Seek Balance With MDs
Zones of Collaboration Goes to Washington
Grateful Med
NRHA Opposes Post-Acute Transfer Rule
NRHA Hosts On-Line Networking
The Capital Area Rural Health Roundtable
ORYX Alert
Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
WI Rural Health Association Moves Forward
Top Notch Choice as Health Administrator
Laughter Requires Surgical Intervention Guns, Germs & Steel Eye On Health cartoon

November, 1997

RWHC Offers A Rural ORYX Option Rural Input to Medicare: Where's Waldo?
Wisconsin Requests Feds to Bless BadgerCare
State Health Care Reforms On Way Back
Consumer Protection and Quality
Non-Profit HMOs & AARP Propose Standards
Insurance Portability Reform Incomplete
Update Re Medicare Wage Index "Reform"
How to Access Telecommunication Subsidy
Nibbling Constantly, Sweetly at Power's Ear
Rural Health Services Research Database
Internet Has Your Map
How 'Statistics' Lead to Being Mislead
Networking-Undoing the Perfected
Foundation Fundraising and Grant Writing
Trudy Karlson Joins WI Policy Network
Eye On Health cartoon

October, 1997

Rural Zones of Collaboration Energized
Institute of Medicine Looks at Collaboration
Urban Measures Right for Rural Care?
Rural Based Recommendations to Shalala
Hell Finally Freezes Over
Town Hall Meeting on Women's Health
Small-Firm Employees Fuel Backlash?
Reversing Course From Vertical Integration
Policy and Video Networks Merge Capacity
Innovative Program in Population Health
Wisconsin Medigap Hotline
Mental Health, Drug Abuse & Managed Care
The Art of Organizing Ourselves
Promoting Rural Health & Rural Jobs
A Rural Practitioner's Guide to Agromedicine
Beating the Nicotine Addiction
An Educational Cooperative in Cyberspace
Birth of Wisconsin Rural Health Association
Thanks to Rural WI Leaders
Almost Not the Wisconsin Badgers
Eye On Health cartoon

September, 1997

The Price of Greed
Governors Given Medicare Hot Potato
Employee Health Insurance Varieties Grow
Federal Funding for Children's Health
Untangling Fraud from Errors
NRHA 5th Annual National Symposium On Rural Hospital Issues
Pharmaceutical Foxes Guarding Chickens
AMA Takes on Mantle of HMO Watch Dog
Columbia/HCA Shifts Physician Strategy
National Coalition Invites In A Rural Voice
Two-by-Two: 2% Uninsured by 2002
Medicare HMOs - Now Real Work Begins
Health Care's Swiss Army Knife?
Community Values Do Matter
RWHC Aims to Enhance Cooperation
RWHC Mission Steady Since 1979
The Dartmouth Health Atlas
"Trouble In The Boardroom"
Tip To Reduce Phone Solicitations At Work
Eye On Health cartoon

August, 1997

Beginning of a New Competitive Era
Welcome Expansion of the Medicare Debate
The Medicare HMO Revolving Door
Enee, Menee, Minee, Minee, Mo
Competitors Can Cooperate
Obtaining the Best Financing Proposals
The Ultimate Slippery Slope Argument
Friends & Family Drive Health Care Choices
Managed Care Backlash Continues
FBI Raids the Raider
Health Law Program Celebrates 25th Year
U.S. Bureau of Census On-line Resource
"Medical Associations: Guilds or Leaders?"
A Decision-Maker Researcher Dialogue
WI Rural Leadership Program Opportunity
Eye On Health Cartoon

There was no issue for July, 1997

June, 1997

Wisconsin's $1 Billion a Year Medicare Loss
Proposal for a Breast Cancer Survivor CampOrder Helps Rural Providers Get Wired
We Don't Pick Trends, Only Our Responses
Rural HMOs: How Much & Where?
How Medicare HMOs Sweeten the Pot
The Age of Information, Misinformation
Benefits of a Cooperative Initiative
Partnerships for Health
Cheesehead Cool
Another Cheesehead to Washington
Washington Becoming a Veritable Fondue
Ex-UW Professor Now CEO $1.5 B System
WI Honors Primary Care Educators
Note for Health Policy Web-Wonks
Summer Is Finally Here
"When the horse is dead, get off."
Eye On Health Cartoons

May, 1997

The RWHC Jackie Robinson Award
While falling into the news category of dog bites man...
Public Opinion & Federal Budget Reality Gap
Delaying Obvious Will Hurt Us All More
Bob Dole on Fixing Medicare
Clinton's Proposed Medicare HMO "Fix"
Arms Race Between Buyers & Sellers
Balancing Back Lash Against HMOs
Risk Adjustment
Don't Foreclose the Individual Uninsured
State Role in Nonprofit Conversions
Don't Throw Out Community Input
Continuing the Reinvention
Out of the Citadel into Community
Culture, Agriculture & Rural Health
Between Chaos and Order
Myrtle Werth Honored Nationally, Again
WisKids Count Data Book
How Do You Approach Change?
Eye On Health Cartoon

April, 1997

Opposing Across-the-Board Medicare Cuts
Prevention in HMO's Economic Interest?
Errata re "Part A" Deductible/Coinsurance
The Rural Zones of Collaboration Initiative
The Shift Away From Fee-For-Service Plans
RWHC Snapshots
More at All Ages Overweight
Rural Hospitals Serve More Elderly, Uninsured
PSOs - The Position For
PSOs - The Position Against
Administrative Costs Higher At For-Profits
A Physician & American Politics
Those Darn Blue Dogs
Sunset Casts Shadow on Rural Health
Eye On Health Cartoon

March, 1997

Medicare Cost To Elderly Spurs HMO Growth
Medicare HMOs Big In A Few Counties
Senators Proposing Medicare Commission
Additional Competitive Medicare Models
Medicare Changing Without Congress
Federal Rural Advisory Group Speaks Up
Bottom Line: Competition Means Something
The Hype Of Dealmaking
News Or Propaganda?
OHCI Aides Wisconsin Grant Writing
AHA's New Eye On Patients
Caring For Our Children's Health
We Need To Get Off Our Collective Butts
Wisconsin's Lion & Sheep Lie Down Together
NRHA's Policy Institute
Values For Sale?
The Start Of Medical Savings Accounts
Entries For $1,000 Rural Essay Due April 15
A Field Guide to Cows
Eye On Health Cartoon

Super Bowl Special Edition,1997

How About Those Conventional Wisdoms?
Medicare "Freeze" Hits Fat & Lean
WI Insurance Commissioner In National Post
Congressional Medicare Scuffle 1997-1
A Failure Of Leadership--Partisan Strife
Medicare Wage Inequity Continues
Through A Looking Glass--After Regulation
Examining Conventional Wisdom, Part II
Caring For The Uninsured--Realistic Reforms
The Non-Profit Conversion Debate Continues
Contrary Provider Views On Assisted Suicide
Social Security Debate According To AARP
Sean's Exploding Oat Bran Muffins
Eye On Health Cartoon

January, 1997

Farewell Tour Of A Class Act
2000
"Riverboat Gambling With Government"
A Chilling Post-Mortem Of Health Reform
Wisconsin Governor's Rural Summit
Mainstream Media & Medicare Equity
Managed Care--What About Quality?
Congressional Backlash Against HMOs?
Medicare Prohibits HMO "Gag Rules"
Clinton Proposes Modest Medicare Reform
Five "Models That Work"
What Is Rural & Who Cares?
Health Insurance Or Prison?
Premature Death Rate Higher In Rural Areas
Community-Academic Partnership, For Real
1.3 Million Awarded To AHEC
Internet Grows As Basic Health Care Tool
Greg Nycz Receives Overdue Honor

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