Insurance administrators are not evil. They are, rather, a product of our uniquely dysfunctional health care system.By Samuel Metz, M.D.Portland (Ore.) Tribune, Feb. 1, 2018Measure
Health Insurance Reform in the United States – What, How, and Why?
By Adam Gaffney, M.D.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Point/Counterpoint, Winter 2018By Adam Gaffney, M.D. | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2018
Last summer,
Pay for performance: a dangerous health policy fad that won’t die
The latest research shows that this carrot-and-stick approach to improving health care doesn't work.By Kip Sullivan and Stephen SoumeraiSTAT News, Jan. 30, 2018Pay for performance,
How The ACA Affected Household Medical Spending
By Carey Goldberg and Meghna ChakrabartiWBUR, CommonHealth, Jan. 22, 2018By Carey Goldberg and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR, CommonHealth, Jan. 22, 2018
A new study out in
Has ACA Made Health Care More Affordable?
Yes for some, no for others -- but affordability wasn't the law's only goal.By F. Perry Wilson, M.D., M.S.C.E.MedPage Today, Jan. 22, 2018By F. Perry
The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality
Even with the Affordable Care Act, the premium and payment structure of insurance increases the relative income gap between rich and poor.By Vann R. Newkirk
Three ways to cut — and improve — Medicare
By Ed Weisbart, M.D.STAT, Jan. 17, 2018The Republicans are right. We should cut Medicare. And I know how: Keep Medicare’s funding for actual health care
Why does it cost $32,093 just to give birth in America?
The US is the most expensive nation in the world in which to have a baby – and it may factor into thousands of bankruptcies
The true problem and solution to high drug prices
By Elizabeth CarsonThe Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2018By Elizabeth Carson | The Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2018
The Jan. 3 Economy & Business article “Under fire,
Trump is right: Negotiate for lower drug prices
By Rob Stone, M.D., Chris Stack, M.D., and Fran QuigleyIndianapolis Star, Jan. 4, 2018All Hoosiers have seen the headlines about drug price increases, and too
The Leap to Single-Payer: What Taiwan Can Teach
How one nation transformed a health care system. Can America do big things anymore?By Aaron E. Carroll and Austin FraktNew York Times, December 26, 2017Taiwan
The Single-Payer Healthcare Debate Revisited
Interview with Robert Kiefner, M.D.The Exchange, NHPR, December 13, 2017With uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act's future, and Congressional inaction on an alternative, some lawmakers