VA health care performs as well or better than the private sector on nearly every metric of quality.
health care costs
Posted inPolitical Animal
A New Trajectory in Health Care Expenditures
The hard-fought accomplishment of Obamacare is starting to pay off
Posted inHealth Care, June/July/August 2016, Magazine, Special Reports
Drug Treatment
How to separate the good from the bad.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Obamacare’s Success in Protecting our Finances
It wasn’t the primary goal, but it’s a big help nonetheless.
Posted inHealth Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2016
The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet
Inside the Koch brothers’ campaign to invent a scandal and dismantle the country’s most successful health care system.
Posted inEconomy, Health Care
Health Care’s Coming Crisis: Out-of-Pocket Costs
Soaring deductibles, co-pays and other costs will be the next big debate in health care.
Posted inGovernment, Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Lost in Obamacare
Buried in Steven Brill’s convoluted tome are important truths about how to reform our health care delivery system.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Health Care, January/February 2014, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
After Obamacare
A frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
Posted inHealth Care, July/August 2013, Magazine
The Doctor Cartel Will See You Now
Conservatives have long warned that government-mandated universal health care will lead to long wait times to see doctors, as in Canada and the United Kingdom. But the truth is that we already have long waits to see some kinds of doctors in the United States. It takes nearly a month (twenty-seven days) for the average […]
Posted inEducation, Health Care, Higher Education, July/August 2013, Magazine
First Teach No Harm
The U.S. spends $13 billion a year subsidizing graduate medical education. Yet almost all of this money winds up producing the wrong kinds of doctors in the wrong places, with America’s most elite teaching hospitals being the worst offenders.
