Asymmetric Thinking about Return on InvestmentBy David A. Asch, M.D., Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D., and Ralph W. Muller, M.A.The New England Journal of Medicine, February

The concept of return on investment (ROI) in health care may represent what is wrong with our system that causes it to be so expensive

Medicare's History Belies Claim That Medicare-for-All Would Disrupt CareIt Disrupted Jim Crow, but Otherwise the Transition Was SmoothBy Steffie Woolhandler and David HimmelsteinThe Huffington Post,

'Nuf said. Time for Medicare-for-All.

Cancer Patients Snagged in Health Law’s Tangled PaperworkBy Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarAssociated Press, February 15, 2016Hundreds of thousands of people lose subsidies under the health law, or

Participation in the ACA exchanges is coming in at a much lower level than were the original predictions. Furthermore, significant numbers drop out each year,

Founded for the Poor, Mass General Looks to the WealthyBy John HancThe New York Times, February 12, 2016Can a hospital founded more than 200 years

Say it isn’t true. Mass General? Concierge hospital? Two-tier medicine? Selling the front of the queue to the wealthy?

Most Regionally Ranked Hospitals Stay In-Network with Marketplace Plans, But Participation DeclinesBy Katherine Hempstead, PhD, MARobert Wood Johnson Foundation,  February 6, 2016Looking at network participation

A well-functioning health care system should be designed such that patients who would specifically benefit from the services of a highly ranked regional hospital should

Seasonal agricultural workers do not fit into a neat slot in the dysfunctional, fragmented financing system that President Obama and Congress have selected for us.