1998 Monthly Newsletters

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RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, December 1st, 1998 (as a pdf file )
Rural Health's Future Keeps Changing
Rural Seniors, Get Mad--Location Matters
$2 Billion State Shortfall
Your County's Medicare Options on Internet
Small Firms Hard Hit by Premium Increases
Purchasing Pools Can Make a Difference
WI Coalition for Health Insurance Reform
1st Stark Opinion Focuses on Rural Exception
Crashes - #1 Killer of America's Kids
1st Rural Medicare HMO, Leader or Anomaly?
Rural HMOs Spreading-the Implications?
HMOs--Problem or Symptom?
Rural Population Surging
All Things Bright, Beautiful, Great & Small
Eye On Health cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, November 1st, 1998 (as a pdf file )
HMOs-Evolution Or Extinction?
Gatekeeping-Jury Is Still Out
Small Businesses Bear Brunt Rate Increases
Americans Without Insurance Up Again
Rurals Shouldn't Sell Selves Cheaply
Non-Profit Rural Hospitals Good Investment
This Year's Attack On Rural Funding
Why Is Wisconsin Last In Federal Spending?
Making a Child's Life on Farm Safer
Chiropractors--The "Invisible" Rural Providers
Suicide Is Male Illness & Can Be Treated
WI AHEC System's Grass Roots
Collaboration Can Be Pain In Back
$1,000 for Best Rural Health Essay
Tip for Graying Computer Users
This Newsletter Now Available Via Email
Eye On Health Cartoon

RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, October 1st, 1998 (as a pdf file )
Graying Wisconsin Leads to Growing Conflict
Where is Ken Starr When We Do Need Him?
Rural Principles for Rural Medicare Reform
Medicare HMOs on Sick List
HMO Backlash Fed by Lack of Plan Choices?
Stages of Maturation In Health Promotion
Rural Initiatives Reduce Cost of Borrowing
Agreement on Medicare Wage Index Reached
Are Patient Report Cards Worth Anything?
Cooperatives Part of Wisconsin's Economy
New Option for Rural
Rural Advocates & Information Age Issues
Eye On Health

September, 1998

    41 Million Uninsured with a Strong Economy
    Medicare's Rural Wage Bias, Chapter 99
    Caution Advised Re Rural Medicare HMOs
    New Payment Option For Rural Hospitals
    Hospitals' Assisted-Living Opportunity?
    All HMOs Are Not Equal
    Cooperative Technical Assistance on Web
    Local Control Matters, But How?
    Deinstitutionalization's Unfinished Business
    RWHC Competency Program
    Turning Point to Proceed
    Larry Nine's Honored for 15 Years' Service
    Rural Health/Economics Video Available
    Natural Network vs. Individual Tensions
    Eye On Health Cartoon
     

August, 1998

    Medicare Sausage from Rural Road Kill
    Dog Bites Man--Only Healthy Need Apply
    HMO Reform or Election Year Posturing?
    HMO Reform or Not, Ask Questions
    HMO Mecca Calls for Increasing Choice
    Medicine Is Still First About People
    Warning of Non-Profit Backlash
    Community of Spectators is No Community
    NRHA Works to Expand Who Is at the Table
    Rural Telehealth Applications Up
    For Corporate Health, Encourage Dissent
    RWHC Moving to Independence Trail
    RWHC Cuts Provider/HMO Paper Work
    Choosing Fragmentation or Cooperation
    Eye On Health Cartoon
     

July, 1998

    Question of Patient Choice
    Health Marts in Future?
    Insurance Reform for Small Business
    HMO Reform & Politics
    Competition Requires Risk Adjustment
    Phone Companies Attack Rural Subsidy
    Rural Physicians Are Risk-Sharing
    Women's Health Fair, August 15th
    Ten Ways to Successfully Ruin A Board
    Collaboration Jazz
    Model Long Term Care System
    Attitude Matters
    Monato Essay Prize Awarded
    Congratulations Richland Center
    Haney Moves Up Food Chain
    Message Here?
    Diverse World of Cooperatives
    Eye On Health Cartoon
There Was No June Issue

 

May, 1998

    Darwin, Congress & Slopping Hogs
    Rural Advocacy--No Time for Laurels
    NRHA Current Policy Papers On-line
    Rural Archive of Maps On-line
    "Keep Friends Close, Enemies Closer"
    Columbia/HCA--Scapegoat or Criminal?
    Wisconsin Outlaws Midnight Hospital Raids
    Call for Nonprofits to Heal Themselves
    Declining Occupancy Rates Bottoming Out?
    Rural Health Policy Discussion Group
    Grant Funds for Local Access Projects
    "Just the Facts, Mam"
    The Mother of All Search Engines
    JAMA Adds Women's Health Site On-line
    Federal Web Site for Telehealth Subsidies
    Violent Images--Cause or Effect?
    New Health Insurance Tax Deductions?
    Eye On Health cartoon
     

April, 1998

    Health Care Competition Is Also About Jobs
    USA Today Weighs In for the Uninsured
    Rural Kept Uninsured Three Times Longer
    Ron Kind (WI) to Monitor Medicare Reform
    Perspective Of A Medicare Commissioner
    Acceleration of Buyer Demands
    W.W.II Freeze Effects Competition Today
    The Struggle for Power in Managed Care
    Closed Neighbor Doesn't Help the Survivors
    Annual Meetings--Not Just Cheesehead Hats
    Act Now to Reduce Rural Telehealth Costs
    National Quality Expert Here On April 22nd
    Cost Effective Capital for Small Projects
    Competent Leaders Have High Emotional IQ
    Eye On Health Cartoon
     

March, 1998

    The Key American Value of Choice
    Competing by Avoiding Sick People
    Secretary Donna Shalala & Rural Health
    Medicare Bankruptcy, a Crisis Only Delayed
    Not Just an HMO Driven World
    Doctors Give Mixed Marks to "Gatekeeping"
    Web Sites for Rural Minority Health
    "Mastering the Natural Art of Dying"
    The Answer is All in the Question
    Bull Market Undermines Community Spirit
    If Taverns Hosted AA Meetings?
    Register Now for Wisconsin Rural Health Conference
    Rural Doesn't Mean Uninformed
    EOH Cartoon
     

February, 1998

    WI Coalition For Health Insurance Reform
    WI's Medicare Losses
    Clinton's Preempts Medicare Commission
    Rural Wages May See Long Sought Review
    Health Expenditure Growth at 37 Year Low
    Three Managed Care Mega-Trends
    Becoming Indispensable
    International Medical Graduates
    Using Phones for Self-Care
    The U-Special Kids Model of Integrated Care
    Critical Access Hospitals: A WI Update
    WI Assembly On Line with Live Coverage
    WI AHEC System Restructuring Update
    Entries for $1,000 Rural Essay Due April 15
    Would You Want to Know?
    Eye On Health Cartoon
     

January, 1998

    Sauk County Quality Initiative
    We Can Detect Breast Cancer Earlier
    The Uninsured in These Ununited States
    Ongoing Dance of Competition & Regulation
    Both Market & Government
    Voluntary Purchasing Pools­Doing It Right
    HMOs & Rural Elderly
    Population Health-How Is Wisconsin Doing?
    Rural Physician Under-Supply
    Is the ADA Working?
    I'll See It When I Believe It
    Brown Slime On Your Neurons?
    Cooperation Works!
    Working Longer To Pay For Old Age
    RWHC Passages
    Eye On Health Cartoon

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