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...about 20%.) That is a depressingly low figure, even for a relatively poor developing country. I recently interviewed a migrant worker from Sichuan province who several months ago broke his arm in an industrial accident. He's back home now, without a job, without unemployment benefits, and has no access to health care to treat his arm, which still pains him "to the point that I can't work," he told me. He now lives with his parents - peasants who work the fields for about $80 a month...
After CPOE grief and the obvious but very important "what if it breaks?" issue, our immediate concern with putting all that medical data on a nationwide computer network is privacy. Who gets to look? How do you limit access to information and respect privacy when managing a disease, like diabetes or AIDS, that affects many organ systems and so involves many different kinds of doctors and services. Doctor-patient confidentiality seems quite likely to be one of the sacrifices Americans will be required to make to get this project going...
Health care is a labyrinth of insurers, doctors, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, all using different computer systems; are we really going to create a single comprehensive system that gives everyone access to all the information they need? Or find a way to get the multiple systems already out there to talk to each other? It would be a task to make Reagan's Star Wars plan seem quite manageable. But that is only the beginning; really hard is going to be getting this multi-billion dollar juggernaut to actually save us money. (Read "Faith and Healing: A Forum...
...Lula has an 80% approval rating. This suggests that despite the recession, most Brazilians still feel they're winning. "It was very difficult to change social class in Brazil 10 years ago, or even four years ago," says Luis Minori of the market-research firm Ipsos. "Now people have access to microcredit and computers and other means of social mobility." In that sense Brazil has outperformed even China and India, Neri claims, because "poverty is falling [in those places] but inequality...
...confidence that Brazil is showing abroad, there's a lot to fix at home. Aside from corruption, Brazil's public bureaucracy is one of the world's most wasteful. Education, despite increased funding and access, is an embarrassment: students consistently score near the bottom of international math, science and reading tests. Exorbitant taxes and violent crime scare off foreign investors, and in the Amazon, deforestation remains a problem...