A Few Good Thoughts

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/10/01/162089697/medicare-rolls-out-carrots-and-sticks-for-hospital-quality
- This blog is written and reported by NPR's science desk.
- This Blog talks about different medical aspects. In the blog I read they are talking about medicare and its efforts to reward hospitals.
- The producers interest in this blog is deliver news, information, and music programming to various listeners.
- The topics they are blogging about relate closely to my topic because they have a lot to do with health care in this country.
- Some of the comments on the blog stray a bit off topic, but they always say something about health care.
- There are various links to Twitter and Facebook.


http://blogs.wsj.com/health/
- This blog is written by the the Wall Street Journal.e
- This blog expresses many different concerns about health care. They include different surveys to get the reader involved in the discussion.
- I believe the producers interest in creating this blog is to inform and stir up debates and conversations about health care.
- These topics are very similar to my topic because not only do they relate, but they get people involved.
- I enjoyed reading some of the topics because like I said the topics are getting the reader involved, so the comments are pretty much answering the questions from the blog.
- There is a ton of links on this site from Google + to Four Square.


http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/
- This blog was created by a man named Jack Friday.
- The blog talk about the pharmaceutical companies. They are expressing the pros and cons about various drugs and the companies who represent them.
- The producers interest in this blog is to educate people on the pharmaceutical industry.
- They have been publishing posts daily, but really too much about the health care issue in this country.
- As shocking as this might sound I scrolled through two pages of posts and didn't see any comments. Must not be that interesting.
- There are various links to Twitter and Facebook.


http://healthcare.nationaljournal.com/
- The blog is written by health care experts.
- The Blog is discussing health care reform as well as different health care issues, such as aids.
- The producers interest in this blog is to educate on policies and politics.
- They publish posts what seems to be every few weeks, but they are dead on with the health issue i am relating to.
- The comments are actually very informative as well.
- There are various links to many social networks.