Despite insights, Time magazine's cover story falls short on remedyBy James KahnCommonDreams.org, February 28, 2013 In his recent Time magazine article, Steven Brill paints a vivid
4 things to know about Medicare's overhead costs
By Bob HermanBecker's Hospital Review, Feb. 27, 2013Many statistics and numbers are thrown around when health care policymakers and leaders discuss Medicare's administrative costs, but
Saving on health care at the cost of people's health
Health care spending in the U.S. has slowed because fewer people can afford health servicesBy Margaret Flowers, M.D.Al-Jazeera, Feb. 27, 2013By Margaret Flowers, M.D. |
Market doesn't work for health
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Fighting for health care that doesn’t leave you broke & naked
A profile of Dr. Elizabeth FrostBy Jacob WheelerThe Uptake (St. Paul, Minn.), Feb. 27, 2013If Minnesota ever adopts a single-payer heath care system, the work
Readers react: The future of Medicare
The New York Times, Letters, Feb. 24, 2013PNHP note: The following two letters were published as part of a "Sunday Dialogue" in response to a
Free-market fantasy on health care
By Caroline Poplin, M.D.The New York Times, Letters, Feb. 21, 2013Re “The Health Benefits That Cut Your Pay” (Sunday Review, Feb. 17):With the best intentions,
Reducing Administrative Costs
By Samuel Metz, M.D.New England Journal of Medicine, Correspondence, Feb. 14, 2013In their Perspective article, Cutler et al. (Nov. 15 issue)[1] describe methods for reducing
Corruption and scandal in the NHS: What happens when you introduce private incentives to public services
This article includes videoBy Josh Freeman, M.D.Medicine and Social Justice blog, Feb. 23, 2013By Josh Freeman, M.D. | Medicine and Social Justice blog
The United Kingdom has a National
Physician says Obamacare not the answer to full coverage
By Nicole BackThe Morehead (Ky.) News, Feb. 22, 2013Is health care a human right? Dr. Ewell Scott, a retired physician, emphatically says the answer is
Chart of the day: Medicare’s administrative costs, explained
By Austin FraktThe Incidental Economist, Feb. 18, 2013In the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Kip Sullivan of the Minnesota chapter of Physicians for
The role of the New Democrats in the explosion of managed care
By Meade KlingensmithRemapping Debate, Feb. 20, 2013By Meade Klingensmith | Remapping Debate
The “New Democrats” of the 1990s — those who thought the Democratic Party should