Almost two years ago, my father was killed by a hospital-borne infection in the intensive-care unit of a well-regarded nonprofit hospital in New York ...
bloomberg.com | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
The last time a president tried to overhaul U.S. health care, Americans were spending $912 billion on the system and 40 million were uninsured. Today ...
Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
Talk to the chief executives of America's preeminent health-care institutions, and you might be surprised by what you hear: When it comes to medical c...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
Pick any national metric of healthiness -- life expectancy, infant mortality, birth weight, chronic diseases incidence -- and America's comparative performance is in the cellar. How can this be?
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even disco...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN, TREVOR TOMPSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Voters began to worry more about their pocketbooks over the last month -- even more than about the war in Iraq. More than half the voters in an ongoi...
The Atlantic (September 2009) | David Goldhill | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics