1999 Monthly Newsletters
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RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, December, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Seniors At Bat: Challenge Medicare’s Constitutionality
Seniors Rebel-The Big Picture
The Beginning Of Pro- Rural Health Congress?
More Miracle Drugs Fewer Can Afford
How Good Is Health Care For Your Health?
RWHC & JCAHO Have "Spirited" Debate
MD Barriers To Using Clinical Guidelines
For Colds/Flu, TLC Is Often The Prescription
10 Steps To Increase BadgerCare Enrollment
No Ifs or Buts, Get the Yellow Book Update
RWHC Hospital Wins Major Quality Award
Dean of Rural Hospital CEOs Honored
EOH Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, November, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Is It 200,000 or 600,000 Wisconsin Uninsured?
Health Care Reform in the Washington Post
Health Care Reform in the New York Times
For-Profit Health Care--The Dark Side
Beyond a Sound Bite, What Is Community?
Communities Reclaiming For-Profit Castoffs
Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
Any of Us May Become Health Care Workers
We Must Detect Breast Cancer Earlier
State Has Primo Health Consumer WWW Site
EOH Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, October, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Why Fewer Rural Medicare Benefits?
Strong Backing for Medicare Equity Claims
Co-op Month Supports Rural Women’s Health
Healthcare: A Lot Is Useless, Much Isn’t Done
Business & Health Leaders on Same Planet
Employment-Based Health Benefits Update
HMO Customer Ratings Fall
Nonprofits & Technology Funding
The Ultimate Practical How-To Web Site
How Do you Know Web Info Is Any Good?
EOH Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, September, 1999 (as a pdf file )
A Strong Argument for Rural Independence
"Could We Just Sort Of Legislate?"
The Case for a Patients' Bill of Rights
Too Much Privacy Hazardous to Your Health
Medicare--Same Old, Same Old
Health Poor for Workers Out of ViewSelf-Employed BadgerCare Access Improved
Want to Live Longer?--Location Matters
Mega-Web Link List
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EOH Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, August, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Will Medicare Vouchers Work for Rural?
Rural Hospital Plight Taken to the U.S. Senate
"Right" to be Elected Trumps Patients’ Rights
Late BadgerCare Applicants May Lose Out
Local Teenage Actors Reaching Other Teens
Statewide Satellite Dialogue to Help Kids
Spirituality, Medicine & Advocacy
Ethics Consultation for Rural Providers
Women-Ask Questions & Live Healthier
A Snap Shot of Rural History/Future
Use BlueCross Monies Off Campus, Over Time
EOH Cartoons
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, July, 1999 (as a pdf file )
State Leadership Needed for Purchasing Pools
Managed Care Is More than Managed Costs
Same Quality Standards but in Rural Context
Wilensky Calls for Select Medicare Increases
Clinton’s Medicare Reform--More of the Same?
What is Choice Worth?
Medicare Fee-For-Service or Managed Care?
Change in Federal Definition of Rural Areas?
The Superior CEO: A Profile
A Self-Test For CEOsStaring into Coffee
Eye On Health Cartoon
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, June, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Uninsured & Small Employers Closely Linked
Politicians Fiddle as Number Uninsured Grow
Rural Sympathy Scarce for Teaching Hospitals
Angry Seniors Preparing Medicare Equity Suit
Health Care Quality Demands Improvement
Are We More than Our Repairable Parts?
Leadership Training Available By Satellite
Institute of Medicine Backs Collaboration
Health & Safety Needs Real Communities
Internet Now the Gardener's Best Friend
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, May, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Health Insurance Pools Make Good Sense
Collaborating for Appropriate Antibiotics Use
Federal Dollars Not Dumping from Rural Sky
A Rural Challenge to Enroll BadgerCare Kids
How Many Ways Can You Say Unsustainable?
The Changing Face of Medicare
Shortage of Rural Physicians Is Solvable
Not Laughing--Right Frontal Lobe Challenged?
Transforming How We See Transforming
WI PT of the Year Serves Rural & Urban Alike
Eye On Health Cartoon
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, April, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Domestic Violence In Our Back Yard
Creative Organizations Just Don't Happen
A RWHC Service Passes Major Hurdle
Test Your Rural Health IQ
RWHC Forming Speakers Bureau
New Mega-Health Site On Web
"Ask Marilyn" Answers The "Unanswerable"
Learning Life's Last Competency
Living Wills And Power Of Attorney On Web
Title Creep
Pagan Rurals Named The Days Of The Week
Eye On Health Cartoon
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, March, 1999 (as a pdf file )
WI Communities Need State AHEC Support
Medicare Fails to Consider Rural Impact\
HMOs Will Have Less Incentive to Avoid Sick
Health Plans Get Boost in Some Counties
Play to Strengths, Address Weaknesses
Telemedicine--Beyond Email
WI Providers Need to Help "Sell" BadgerCare
Doc Hollywood, Part II
The National Rural Health Resource Center
RWHC Members In News Doing Good
Eye On Health Cartoon
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, February, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Enough Already, Feds Approve BadgerCare
Drug Companies & Elderly Face-off on Medicare
Medicare's Management Crisis Hurts Us All
Market Questions For-Profit Managed Care
HMOs Match Traditional Insurance Increases
Does Wisconsin Intend to Hurt Small Business?
RWHC's New Office Now a Reality
WI Coalition for Health Insurance Reform
Physician Practice Styles Effect Health Status
Beyond Experts, Stories That Heal
Today's Organizations Require New Skills
Touchy Feely or Pragmatic Management?
HMOs & Public Health Can Collaborate
Eye On Health Cartoon
RWHC Eye On Health Newsletter, January, 1999 (as a pdf file )
Rose Bowl Fever Sweeps Countryside
Long Term Care Reform--a Rural View
WDC Rural Advocacy Critical in 1999
RWHC--A Quick Twenty Years
Why Wisconsin is Wisconsin
Competitors Can Collaborate Around Quality
Medicare Critical Access Hospital Program
Growing Beyond Grumbling & Griping
RWHC WWW Site as Internet Starting Point
Hear AMA's Historic Opposition to Merger
Researchers, Please Don't Change Your Mind
Eye On Health Cartoon