Trump’s HHS nominee says he wants to take on how Medicare compensates physicians. On this issue, he’s actually right.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Posted inMagazine
How Hospital Monopolies Drive Up the Cost of Care
Hospitals were never meant to be operated like businesses. To improve our health care system, hospital concentration must be regulated.
Posted inMagazine
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 Rochelle Walensky Can Improve the CDC’s Pain Guidelines
The agency has issued draft guidance on opioid prescribing. It’s an improvement over a 2016 version that left too many patients in pain—but the director needs to make it even better.
