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You need a subscription to access this Wall Street Journal article, but I’ll quote liberally. Support for a change in how health-care coverage is presently provided appears to be growing among many diverse constituencies, including both Republicans and Democrats. The reasons are easy enough to understand. With average health-insurance premiums for families potentially accounting for 21% of median household income, ...

From the Institute for Alternative Futures: While the future promises major advances in healthcare, they will be slow to move into medical practice unless the U.S. confronts access and other larger problems in its healthcare delivery system, according to IAF President Clem Bezold in a March 3 keynote speech to private funders of healthcare research. The time lag in moving ...

Massachusetts Student Wins Intel Science Prize With Cancer Study Before he arrived at the nation’s top science fair competition last week, Herbert Mason Hedberg had already written four pages of a how-to guide on science fair strategies for fellow students at his high school in North Attleboro, Mass. But yesterday, after his research on potential cancer therapies won first prize ...

Here’s a demographic update from the NY Times for populations in the US. The Hispanic and Asian-American populations in the United States are expected to triple by 2050, when non-Hispanic whites would account for the barest majority, according to a Census Bureau report to be released Thursday. By 2050: Total US pop: 420 million (282 m now) Hispanic pop: 24.4% ...