These goals remain essential to improving the quality of our Nation's health system.

There are certain issues where depression sometimes appears when people find out they either have a problem.

Narrowing the quality chasm will make it possible to bring the benefits of medical science and technology to all Americans in every community, and this in turn will mean less pain and suffering, less disability, greater longevity, and a…

One of the keys to chronic management, Dr. Cassel would say, is aggressive testing.

We need to say good-bye to silo thinking in which quality is over here, cost is there, and so on.

We are going to adjourn this committee until February 5, when we are going to be holding another hearing on quality.

any pediatrician, any parent can call this toll-free number and make sure that that child gets the services that that child needs.

Do they have depression, or have they been given antidepressive medication? I don't consider those to be the same thing.

We see it as all the same story.

In the economic stimulus package, along with a beginning investment in health IT, there are also additional resources to deal with the nursing shortage.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order.

You need integrative medicine to help create the kinds of teams we are talking about, but you need integrative healthcare because it is really the new paradigm.

They have to be viewed as an essential part of primary care, not 'isn't it swell if we could afford it?'

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