Monthly Archives: June 2013
Nobel Prize winner brings affordable health care to the U.S.
Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus is no stranger to innovative ideas. He’s the founder of the Grameen bank, a bank in Bangladesh that won the 2006 Peace Prize for helping to reduce poverty. He joins Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN with a new idea and he says it will...
Western healthcare can learn from advances in poorer nations
As seen in: Financial Times By Muhammad Yunus June 4, 2013 A system designed for low-income patients is testing the upmarket model, writes Muhammad Yunus. Across the west, the cost of healthcare is rising. That is because the systems are focused on the most expensive resources: specialist doctors, tests and...