A new Commonwealth Fund study reveals that people who are better able to take care of themselves...
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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...
Public option key to reining in health care costs
Yale University Professor, Jacob Hacker, argues in a recent New York Times opinion piece that a...
How can we rely on paid caregivers?
Many older adults who want to age in their communities must rely on paid caregivers to provide...
Paying less for hospital care through reference pricing
Only an an all-payer system with uniform health care rates, will keep us from wildly varying and...
A medical device may make heart surgery even riskier
Every year, more than half a million Americans have heart bypass surgery to get blood flowing to...
Four ways Congress could weaken Medicare
Much like Social Security, Americans across the political spectrum prize Medicare. Medicare...
State insurance commissioners favor insurance industry
A new report from the Center on Public Integrity, Drinks, Dinners, Junkets and Jobs, lays out the...
Federal drug discount program likely hurts cancer patients
Almost half the hospitals in the U.S. that treat Medicare patients, participate in the federal...
Support grows for Medicare buy-in and public health insurance...
Secretary Clinton is proposing a Medicare buy-in for people between 55 and 64 and a public health...