Technology costs more in the United States. Physicians cost more in the United States. What about the charges of health care facilities? Today, we examine the cost of hospitalization to find more of the same.
N. E. Marsden | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
it is ludicrous to imply that private insurance companies don't ration care by flat-out refusing procedures that people genuinely need or desperately want.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology
Diagnostic imaging represents one of the greatest leaps forward in medical innovation. And as it happens, its costs depend purely on where one plugs in the machine.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Starting today and running into the beginning of next week, I'm going to be making some pretty charts that demonstrate just how the U.S. stacks up against its counterparts among rich, industrialized nations.
nytimes.com | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Nobody promised you this would be easy, Harry. But, hell, why are you there, anyway? Your responsibility is to do the right thing by the American people and bring down future health-care costs.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
President Obama has stressed the importance of "bending the cost curve." The fastest way to do this is shockingly simple: carefully explain to patients the known risks and benefits of procedures.
bloomberg.com | Margaret Collins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Congress should extend a health-care subsidy that helps the unemployed before it ends for some recipients this month, ...
George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Anyone opposed to robust health care reform because it fails to include tort reform needs to examine their premise. We should be more concerned with patient safety.
New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts wh...
McClatchy | Bobby Caina Calvan | Sacramento Bee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO -- For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins....
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
People are saying that health care reform is going to break the bank. No. Health care costs are what might bankrupt us. I am all in favor of reducing those, but railing against the cost of reform while ignoring all the rest is willful ignorance.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
With or without a fraudulent public option, millions of Americans who will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine will see their premiums skyrocket.
Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver
Potentially egregious anti-trust violations in the insurance industry should not be permitted, and the government should be given the power to protect the public from harmful behavior that drives up prices.
AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
TOPEKA, Kan. — The memory still bothers Ken Keller: A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 ...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Many are rallying around the public option like it's a singular opportunity to save the world. It's not; it's not even close.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The ad encapsulates everything that's wrong the health care system: consumers are insulated from the costs of their care, providers are motivated to make a profit, and Wilford Brimley looks like a walrus.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
I was wrong to think that no Republican would vote for reform. I was wrong to think that Baucus had been wasting his time. I was wrong to assume that there was no point to negotiating or giving up anything.
Sima Gandhi | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
The American people have two choices: Implement health care reform now, when the future benefits outweigh the current costs, or wait as rising health care costs slowly drain our bank accounts.
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
"We need to come together towards the middle and this is what the Baucus bill represents," said the former Secretary of the Department of Health and H...
Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
As Congress presses forward with landmark legislation to revamp the nation's health-care system, lawmakers are grappling with a troubling question: A...
D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Solomon really nailed it on the head when he wrote "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." One of the "old" things under the sun, is health care costs.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children." What have we done to ours?
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics