Top Health News Story of Essay

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" American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 112, No.1 (January 2012): 14 -- 15

Reid, T. (2009). The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. New York: Penguin Group.

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Molyneux, J. "The Top Health News Story of 2011: Health Care Reform and a System in Flux." American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 112, No. 1 (January 2012): 14 -- 15

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The Supreme Court's decisions on the ACA won't undo the realization that how we deliver and pay for care must change.

Editor's note: Each January AJN examines the major stories affecting nurses and health care during the previous year. This year's top stories aren't too different from those we highlighted last January: the continuing debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how to fix the floundering economy continue to top our list. And while we hoped that Congress would move past its partisan squabbling to address these incredibly important issues, it didn't happen, even among members of the bipartisan deficit "super committee," which failed to find a compromise solution to reduce the deficit.
For nursing, it was all about whether the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report would create change. Clinical news shows that consumers are still wary of vaccines and confused about screening guidelines; on a global level, the focus seems to have shifted from AIDS to noncommunicable diseases.

In November of last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the increasing burden of health care costs had impoverished millions of Americans. One has only to sample the personal stories of financial hard-ship that have been collected on the We Are the 99% blog (http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com) to see how frequently the.....

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