The novel coronavirus is not going away at the moment. Tens of thousands more people are getting infected. And, the US has not yet figured out how to successfully control its spread or to test...
Diane Archer
Hospital price transparency won’t make health care...
In our Kafkaesque healthcare system, people are told to make an “informed choice” of health insurance when not even the prices private health insurers pay hospitals are transparent...
Medicare helps reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health...
In a recent piece for Health Affairs, Renee Landers et al. write about the role Medicare has played and can continue to play in reducing racial disparities. In a separate piece for the International...
Coronavirus underscores and might worsen health and income...
Nobel laureate and Princeton University economics professor Angus Deaton explains how the novel coronavirus pandemic underscores inequalities in the US. He suggests that without major reforms to our...
Coronavirus: Most Americans believe government should regulate...
With the coronavirus pandemic, the dangers of rationing care based on ability to pay are all too clear. Financial barriers that deter people from getting COVID-19 care not only endanger their health...
States charge 26 drugmakers with illegally driving up the price...
In America, we lock people up when they don’t respond to a bench warrant issued because they failed to pay their medical bills. We deny people health care based on their ability to pay. But...
Walk more, sleep better
Most people need about seven to nine hours of sleep each night. With anxiety and stress levels high during this pandemic, getting a good night’s sleep can be difficult. There are many ways you...
Coronavirus: Hospitals with huge reserves got government...
The New York Times reports that some of the wealthiest hospitals in the US received huge amounts of stimulus money even though they are holding literally tens of billions of dollars in reserves. And...
Coronavirus and hospital bills: Medicare v. private health...
Joseph Goldstein reports for the New York Times on a patient with COVID-19 who was hospitalized for 19 days and received bills totaling more than $400,000. Congress provided hospitals with stimulus...
Disparities in health stem from inequities in housing...
Disparities in health and health care outcomes are a result of inequities in housing, education, work and our justice system as well as racial discrimination. These disparities are not new; they are...