Hospitals were never meant to be operated like businesses. To improve our health care system, hospital concentration must be regulated.
Health Care
Reporting and expert analysis on health care in America: costs, coverage, quality, and the reforms that could make the system work for patients.
Posted inHealth Care
Why Is the Biden Administration Continuing Trump’s Veterans Privatization Scheme?
Republican rules are encouraging worse and more expensive care through Trump-era regulations. The Department of Veterans Affairs needs to change course.
Posted inHealth Care
Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions
The colossus plans to acquire One Medical and put itself at the center of high-end health care.
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GOP Hands Big Pharma a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed for getting tough on drug companies. In fact, they’ll make out just fine.
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Fifty Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Black Health Care Continues to Lag
Since the AP’s landmark exposé on the health study, the gap between Black and white health care continues.
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A Veterans Health Commission Dies an Early Death
The panel was supposed to weigh in on the fate of VA hospitals, but threats to close facilities led senators to kill it.
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The AMA’s Dark Secret
Journalists aren’t allowed inside the supposedly public meetings where the American Medical Association
effectively decides (and ratchets up) health care prices.
Posted inPolitics
How the End of Roe Can (And Can’t) Save the Democrats
Abortion can galvanize Democrats, but only if they viscerally feel that their lives are being upended.
Posted inPolitics
What Sweden Got Right About COVID
The U.S. botched the pandemic—overprotecting kids at low risk of serious illness and under-protecting older Americans. Stockholm pursued a light touch and fared far better.
Posted inHealth Care
Is a Misguided Hospital Building Boom Coming?
A $2 billion expansion of Mass General Brigham in Boston could open the floodgates.
