Universal Coverage Means Less Care and More Money
By JANE ORIENT, MD The reported success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) is based on enrollment numbers. Millions more have “coverage.” Similarly, ...
By JANE ORIENT, MD The reported success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) is based on enrollment numbers. Millions more have “coverage.” Similarly, ...
By ROSS KOPPEL and HAROLD THIMBLEBY The world is reeling from the massive ransomware attack on at least a hundred nations’ computer systems. The unprecedented m...
By JIM PURCELL Did you realize that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) recently passed by the Congressional Republican majority will allow insurers to deny cov...
By ROBERT PEARL, MD “Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered,” the saying goes. And so may it prove to be true for the pharmaceutical industry. Three articles, a...
By JILL MERRIGAN We know improving health through design doesn’t happen overnight, so we decided to extend the submission date for the HxRefactored Design For H...
BY CARL FRANZEN While Congress ponders a true fix for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), consider this about health coverage. Problem #1, Can’t Use It: Healthy peop...
By HANS DUEVEFELT, MD Now, I’m just a country doctor, but I have to say I find it very hard to understand why folks in this country on one hand keep talking abo...
By RICHARD WAGEMAN, MD Two recent hospital admissions and the medical record dictation records events, visits, and documentation of physical examinations that d...
By MICHAEL MILLENSON You (or a loved one) has cancer, but the latest round of chemotherapy has unfortunately had only a modest impact. While you’re acutely awar...
By KENNETH BARTHOLOMEW, MD My big brother Bill, may he rest in peace, taught me a valuable lesson four decades ago. We were gearing up for an extended Alaskan w...