Democratic Governor of Vermont, Peter Shumlin, and Republican Governor-elect of Vermont, Phil Scott, both support all-payer rate setting in Vermont. And, unless the Trump administration undoes...
Diane Archer
Check your medical bills before paying them
All it takes is a visit to the doctor and a few tests or pretty much any visit to the hospital and you’re very likely to see a large number of medical bills. They just seem to keep rolling in...
“Activated” people less likely to develop chronic...
A new Commonwealth Fund study reveals that people who are better able to take care of themselves and navigate the health care system, “activated” people, are less likely to develop...
92-year old woman runs marathon: Video
Harriet is clearly a special woman. Quite the inspiration for all of us!
Thankful for traditional Medicare? Call Paul Ryan
Of all the health care plans in America, traditional Medicare does the most to ensure people get needed care. Unlike private insurance, which increasingly rations care based on people’s ability...
Insurers limiting drug coverage to keep people with costly...
When was the last time you heard of a health insurer advertising its first class cancer care, its impressive slew of specialists or its low costs to people with complex conditions? In fact...
More than four in ten clinical trial results are not available...
To shed more light on safe and effective drug treatments, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS issued a final rule requiring all institutions performing clinical trials to post a...
Get active: Go motorbiking
What’s your motorcycle? Where would you ride? With whom?
Six states allow assisted suicide, death with dignity
We all have different views about what death with dignity means. For some of us, it means choosing when we want to die if we are terminally ill. Colorado just passed a law legalizing assisted...
Medicare is more efficient than private insurance
Note: This post is a version of a post first published on Health Affairs on September 20, 2011. The links on this version of the post are to the same CBO, MedPAC and other documents in the Health...