Fantastic new book, film and website explores nurse’s critical role at the bedside working within the state of our current healthcare system. This film has received nationwide acclaim and is…
read moreFantastic new book, film and website explores nurse’s critical role at the bedside working within the state of our current healthcare system. This film has received nationwide acclaim and is…
read moreBy PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Interesting piece about the unintended cost and consequences of hospital re-admissions. Spectacular advances in medical science have led to a growing population of patients who…
read moreBy ELISABETH ROSENTHAL New York Times This is an excellent article outlining the problems people can run into by allowing medical bills to go unpaid. It takes a long time…
read moreBy Sarah Kliff, Washington Post Fifty percent of Americans now say they oppose the Affordable Care Act. This is the highest number that Kaiser Family Foundation’s poll has seen since October…
read moreBy Sarah Kliff Below is an interesting piece by Sarah Kliff on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. At this…
read moreby Ezra Klein, Washington Post Interesting report on the improvements in the consumer experience of healthcare.gov and what that is likely to mean for the next election cycle. A report…
read moreBy TYLER COWEN, professor of economics at George Mason University Interesting piece on possible compromises that both political parties could agree to in improving the health care law. The Affordable…
read moreBy JUDITH GRAHAM, NY Times This article points out the difficulty in financing long term care for the elderly. Experts believe more focus should be on finding ways to provide…
read moreThis article exposes some of the ways medical product suppliers and hospitals mark up products, sometimes 1,000 times, to capture profitable revenue from sick patients and their insurance companies. Another example…
read morePresident Obama and his advisers hope the healthcare overhaul will do two things. The first is to extend coverage to tens of millions of Americans who today lack health insurance.…
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