Would The Senate Health Care Bill Have Helped Obama's Mom?
Back in the day, Candidate Obama told a touching story about his mother's struggle to pay her medical bills while battling cancer. Obama's mother, Ann...
Back in the day, Candidate Obama told a touching story about his mother's struggle to pay her medical bills while battling cancer. Obama's mother, Ann...
Bradford Kane | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
Whether or not they realize it, families, individuals, and businesses need competition and a system that affordably serves everyone, in order to stabilize the scope and cost of coverage.
James R. Knickman | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York
2010 holds great promise for improving our health care system. However, with mounting deficits at both the state and federal levels, nothing is guaranteed.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
We've come to the end of the health care costs world tour and conclude today with a look at the price of three prescription drugs: Plavix, Nexium, and...
D. Brad Wright | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Sure, the high end U.S. prices still blow everyone out of the water for Pap smears, and beat all but Australia for the throat culture, but take a look at the low-end U.S. average for both tests. The U.S. prices actually look reasonable.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Mammograms weren't outlawed. They weren't taken away. No one's insurance stopped covering them. It's just a recommendation.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
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.
True/Slant | Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics