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Health Watch USA serves to promote value driven health care, competition and health care transparency in quality and cost.

Centers for Disease Control Supports Public Reporting of Healthcare Acquired Infections !!!
Download Support Documents and Proposed Model Law for Kentucky

Nov 13^th, 2009 the third annual conference for Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy was held in Lexington Kentucky.

Keynote Speaker: Dr Regina Herzlinger, Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. Author of "Who Killed Health Care?".

Presenters included Joycelyn Elders, MD, former US Surgeon General and Joseph Miller, JD from the Anti-Trust Division, Office of the US Assistant Attorney General. Over 220 were in attendance.

View Pre-Conference Coverage -- Herald Leader

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Links to Past Conference Presentations at www.healthconference.org

Health Care in the United States - The leader of the free world is accused of being below average when compared to the 30 European and industrialized OECD Nations ( www.oecd.org ).
View Summary Op-Ed PDF

U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard. -- A large number of charts on comparing the quality, price and access to the U.S. healthcare system. View PDF of PowerPoint Presentation Full Report
U.S. spends the most per capita in health care than any other industrialized nation, 238% more than the average OECD Nation, 20% and 49% more than the next two highest OECD Nations (OECD 2007 Healh at a Glance).
Read Report ( http://caliban.sourceoecd.org/vl=4421286/cl=13/nw=1/rpsv/health2007/5-1.htm )
U.S. Life Expectancy is ranked 22^ed in OECD Nations, below the average of the thirty European and industrialized nations. (OECD 2008 Factbook)
Read Report See Analysis
( http://lysander.sourceoecd.org/vl=9959725/cl=16/nw=1/rpsv/factbook/110101.htm )
The US has less hospital beds, nurses, doctors and CT scanners per capita than the average OECD nation. Read Report

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Department of Health and Human Services
      Trends in the Health of Americans - 2006 Chartbook
      Disability in the United States Chartbook
      --- Disability in Kentucky
Institute of Health and Socio-Economic Policy's report on Healthcare and Hospital Costs.
         2003/2004 View Report
           2002/2003 View Report
           2000/2001 View Report

Kaiser Foundation 2006 Report - Employer Health Benefits. View Report

Check to see if your medical doctor is board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialists .

The Commonwealth Fund - a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency.
June 13, 2007 - State health care scorecard in the United States:
Press Release Executive Summary Full Report

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