In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s particularly hard to be in the hospital. You...
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Coronavirus: What would it cost the federal government to pay...
Economists at the University of Massachusetts, PERI, have just released a report analyzing the cost...
Coronavirus: Trump wants to kill the ACA
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump just confirmed that he wants to kill the...
Coronavirus: For the public health, profits should not drive our...
Elisabeth Rosenthal writes for the New York Times on how the US market-based health care system has...
Coronavirus: Should nursing homes be for-profit?
Matthew Goldstein et al. reports for The New York Times that most US nursing homes were losing...
Drugs with high prices are often no better than lower-cost drugs
The US famously pays far more for medications than other countries, putting stress on the health...
Coronavirus: President Trump threatening to block new stimulus...
The US lacks the strong leadership it needs to both contain the spread of the novel coronavirus and...
Coronavirus: The importance of health care proxies
Sadly, the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the lives of older adults. Many more older adults...
Coronavirus: Consider learning tai chi
While socially isolating during this coronavirus pandemic, people are trying all sorts of new...
Coronavirus: Health insurance industry still profiting
Unlike almost every other sector of the economy, the health insurance industry appears to be...