Peter Bach, a physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, explains in Bloomberg News that lowering drug prices will not affect drug innovation in a meaningful way. We will still find cures...
Diane Archer
Medicare for All lowers taxes for most Americans
Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economics professors at UC Berkeley, report in The Guardian that Medicare for All–a public health insurance program, which Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth...
Do you need care? Why should your health insurer decide
In a Washington Post op-ed, William E. Bennett Jr., a gastroenterologist and associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, makes the case that health insurers should...
Skip the urine test, unless you have symptoms
Step into a doctor’s office for a checkup and more often than not, you’ll be weighed, your blood pressure will be checked and you will be asked to pee in a cup so that your urine can be tested...
How to support a loved one diagnosed with a serious health...
Sachin H. Jain writes for Forbes about the importance of understanding how difficult a grave diagnosis can be for a patient. Many people do not want to accept the fact that they have a serious...
Top predictor for a longer life: close relationships
Only one in 5,000 people in the U.S. reach the age of 100. But, there are places where five to ten times as many people live to 100. Some researchers say that the top predictor for a longer life is...
What you should know about ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug
Casey Schwartz reports for the New York Times that many Americans, including many older adults, are taking ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug, native to the Amazon, that is illegal in the United States...
Ten ways Medicare Advantage plans differ from traditional...
There is a lot of confusion surrounding Medicare Advantage plans–commercial health insurance for people with Medicare–and the ways Medicare Advantage plans differ from traditional...
Thousands of Americans with medical debt arrested each year
We know that millions of insured Americans live with hundreds or thousands of dollars of medical debt. A Pro Publica story by Lizzie Presser (my daughter) uncovers how Americans with medical debt...
How does Canada’s Medicare health care system work?
At this year’s Single Payer Strategy conference held last weekend in Portland, I had the pleasure of interviewing Monika Dutt about Canada’s Medicare health care system. Dutt is a family...