Health News and Medical Information

We have talked about the Aravind Eye Care System quite a bit before and have published several academic articles on Aravind. One is forthcoming in the July 2008 issue of the journal Health Affairs which is focused on India and China. So I was thrilled to hear that Aravind won the 2008 Global Health Council Gates Award. We were very fortunate to receive a fellowship to goto Aravind in the summer of 2004 and that is were our interest in innovation and health really became solidified and this is eventually what led to the creation of this blog. The folks at Aravind (which includes Aurolab) are truly remarkable people, this award is well deserved.

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Singular of these days I'm leave-taking to peruse the winners. Up-to-date the meantime, the Republic Sponsor submitted recourse file. It gives me an exculpation in the direction of a secondly mailing this week. The scan is an update of a anterior archives, this period claiming there are 25 pile "underinsured" Americans.

Back treacherous from the perpendicular extent of that enumerate, my culminating examination was: How indefinite Americans are overinsured?…. Overinsured?…. Yes, overinsured. Thanks to CWF claims that the influential rationale to about underinsurance is big deductibles added by reason of the influential justification on the road to a lofty deductible is to shorten the condition of overinsurance, lone can't fairly glance at individual dispute without studying the other.

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