By Johnathon Ross, M.D.The Blade (Toledo, Ohio), Letters, April 21, 2015Your series on preposterously variable health-care prices usefully pointed out one of the key symptoms
Maine’s delayed kidney donation shows disgrace of U.S. health care
By Dr. Philip CaperBangor (Maine) Daily News, April 16, 2015Getting health care in the U.S. often seems first and foremost to be about money. Our
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There’s a Trojan horse in the Medicare bill
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By Dwight Michael, M.D.Gettysburg Times, April 9, 2015We are five years into the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and yet we truly do not know how
Medicare fix needs fixing
By Theodore R. MarmorPhiladelphia Inquirer (Philly.com), April 13, 2015In recent weeks, reform legislation that proposes to change how Medicare pays physicians drew much attention. The
An Effective Prescription for Our Failing Health-Care System
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The private health insurance industry in the U.S. has had
Taming high healthcare bills
By Jessica Schorr Saxe, M.D.The Charlotte Observer, April 9, 2015“Skin in the game.” The phrase pops up frequently in health insurance discussions, as it did
Expand Medicare’s benefits
By David Ray, M.D.Times Union (Albany, N.Y.), April 8, 2015As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Medicare program, and the third year of the
Health: The Right Diagnosis and the Wrong Treatment
By Marcia Angell, M.D.The New York Review of Books, April 23, 2015America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken