Cost of Health Care

Compare Costs On These Websites Before Buying Medical Services

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.23.2012

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Online aggregation sites like Travelocity or Hotels.com have changed the travel market by empowering consumers to shop around for the best deals. Now ...

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When The Poor Have Health Care Coverage, The Cost Goes Down For All

Emily Cohn | Posted 02.10.2012

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The concept of support for universal health care is taboo among Republicans who scrutinize the Affordable Care Act -- dubbing it the "Job-Killing Heal...

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Handful Of Americans Account For Half Of U.S. Health Care Costs

Posted 01.17.2012

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The cost of health care may have gone up for almost all Americans in recent years, but a handful of consumers are getting hit especially hard. Jus...

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Bernie Sanders Tries Some Clear Thinking on Prescription Drugs

Dean Baker | Posted 08.01.2011

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Dean Baker

Many drugs in the U.S. sell for hundreds of dollar per prescription and sometimes several thousand dollars per prescription. There is a simple reason for this: government-granted patent monopolies.

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Bill Falls Short on Protecting Patients

Gibson Vance | Posted 07.11.2011

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Gibson Vance

Congress must put more important priorities, like patient safety, first. H.R. 5 certainly is no answer to addressing the real problems in America's health care system.

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Health Care Reform Without Cost Control

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Love

Like others, I am watching the House of Representative debate the health care reform bill. One way to pay for the bill, or at least to ease the burden of watching, would be to tax cliches spoken on the House floor.

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Americans Dying Too Soon: U.S. Behind Other Nations In Preventable Deaths

Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Congress presses forward with landmark legislation to revamp the nation's health-care system, lawmakers are grappling with a troubling question: A...

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Health Care: What Can We Do While We Wait for Meaningful Reform?

Terry Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011

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Terry Kaye

Health insurance didn't kill my mother; cancer did. But a delay in treatment, caused by her health insurance company, directly led to the complication that ended her life.

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You Owe Me 30 Cents for Dinner: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish on Health Care

Adam Lioz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adam Lioz

We're considering leaving millions of Americans without affordable insurance and missing our best chance to force the insurance companies to clean up their acts over 0.6% of what we'll spend anyway?

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