By The Times Editorial BoardLos Angeles Times, July 12, 2016California lawmakers have been trying for more than a decade to protect hospital patients from being

There are many injustices inherent in our dysfunctional, fragmented system of financing health care, and surprise medical bills from out-of-network physicians is one of them.

United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next StepsBy Barack Obama, JDJAMA, July 11, 2016 (Online)AbstractImportance: The Affordable Care Act is the most

In this JAMA article, President Obama understandably touts the benefits of his Affordable Care Act (ACA) and describes some of the problems that remain that

Secret Shoppers Find Access To Providers And Network Accuracy Lacking For Those In Marketplace And Commercial PlansBy Simon F. Haeder, David L. Weimer and Dana

Covered California is one of the best functioning health insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), yet 70 percent of patients enrolled were

POINT: Should Pulmonary/ICU Physicians Support Single-payer Health-care Reform? YesBy Adam W. Gaffney, MD, Philip A. Verhoef, MD, PhD, Jesse B. Hall, MD, FCCPChest, July 2016As

Although a tremendous amount of data has been generated explaining why the advances of the Affordable Care Act are grossly inadequate and why we need

NBER Working Paper No. 22338: Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D PlansBy Kurt Lavetti and Kosali SimonNational Bureau of Economic Research, June 2016AbstractThe simple

The simple conclusion of this highly technical paper is that fragmentation of health insurance - using the example of Medicare Part D drug benefits -

Health Spending For Low-, Middle-, And High-Income Americans, 1963–2012By Samuel L. Dickman, Steffie Woolhandler, Jacob Bor, Danny McCormick, David H. Bor, and David U. HimmelsteinHealth

Today’s important message is well stated in the Conclusion of the article: “Increasing income inequality has drawn much attention in recent years. Our findings suggest