By Jim LandersDallas Morning News, Sept. 16, 2014WASHINGTON ā Americans spend more than $9,000 apiece on health care every year. Ouch, you say. But how
Rashi Fein, Economist Who Urged Medicare, Dies at 88
By Douglas MartinThe New York Times, Sept. 13, 2014Rashi Fein, an influential economist who strove to bring ethical and humanitarian perspectives to the nationās health
$1.43 of every $100 in America goes toward hospital administration
By Sarah KliffVox, September 15, 2014America spends a lot of money on the paperwork that makes hospitals runā $218 billion per year, to be exact.
Restructure our economically unsustainable health care system
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Letters, Sept. 16, 2014If public policy decisions were driven by good business sense, the United States would long ago
Study: U.S. squanders $150B a year on hospital bureaucracy
By William Ulwelling, M.D.Albuquerque Journal, Sept. 15, 2014How affordable is the American health care system? And are matters getting better or worse? One factor is
U.S. hospitals burdened by high administrative costs
By Dr. Steffie WoolhandlerModern Healthcare, September 13, 2014When I was a kid in Shreveport, La., my father was chief of radiology at the local hospital.
The Havoc of the Unrestrained Drug Industry
By Ralph NaderThe Nader Page, Sept. 12, 2014It is remarkable what very profitable drug companiesāas they merge into fewer giant multinationalsācontinue to get away with
Surprise In Mass. Primary: 21 Percent For Single-Payer Candidate Berwick
By Carey Goldberg WBUR's CommonHealth blog, Sept. 10, 2014 Note to politicians: Backing āMedicare for allā is looking less and less like electoral poison. If, deep
Putting āMedicare for Allā on the Agenda
By John NicholsThe Nation, Sept. 5, 2014Don Berwick is making a vital point about the need for progressives to expand the discussion about healthcare reform.Democratic
‘Market forces’ create bloated hospital bureaucracies: international study
By Markus Mannheim The Canberra Times (Australia), Sept. 9, 2014 United States hospitals spend a quarter of their budgets on administration, more than twice as
Fix Mental Health with Universal Medicare
PNHP note: The following article was updated in an article with the same title in Social Justice Solutions in December 2016. You can view the
Why U.S. hospital administrative costs are among the highest in the world: 7 things to know
By Helen AdamopoulosBecker's Hospital Review, Sept. 8, 2014An analysis of eight countries with various types of healthcare systems has found the U.S. has the highest