Health Care 2.0
June 17, 2008
You may have heard the phrase “Web 2.0.” It refers to how we are now in the second phase of the role that the Internet plays in our lives.
Originally the Web was a source of information and entertainment, written and produced by “professionals.”
In recent years, Internet users have themselves moved onto the Web - actively creating content, blogs, and new software and tools. You could say that the Internet has exploded, and is continuing to explode.
So Health 2.0, then, involves these new ways of using the Web in order to share and make use of health care information. As with Web 2.0, oftentimes this means promoting a very individualized and personal online experience.
New WhatIf Content on Veterans Care, Resources
April 24, 2008
The newest piece on our website explores the crossroads of two of the most important policy issues to Americans:
Health care and the War.
As of April 2008, 1.6 million U.S. troops have deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Whatever your stand on the war or on health care, true patriots would give our men and women who suffer injury and trauma overseas the very best care when they return home.
You may be surprised, however, to learn they are not getting it.
New WhatIf Content on Health Care Costs, Resources
March 27, 2008
The newest pieces on our website expand from the interactive quiz we put up a couple weeks ago:
Do you think you know what’s behind rising health care costs?
Take our quiz and find out. The Top Ten claims about what’s causing health care costs to steadily climb are exposed as true, false, or a little of both.
For a brief explanation of the answers to the quiz - how common claims about rising health care costs fit into the whole story - check out our new Health Care Costs Summary.
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