As the recent report of an advisory commission confirms, we won’t be able to have national health-care reform without Medicare reform.
Maggie Mahar
Maggie Mahar is the author of Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 and Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.
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The Cost of High Costs
Last Thursday The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that contradicts nearly everything that you and I thought we knew about skyrocketing medical bills. According to Harvard economist David Cutler, health-care inflation is a good thing. “The rising cost … of health care has been the source of a lot of saber rattling […]
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What Would Lenin Do?
While some progressives applaud efforts to force employers like Wal-Mart to take on greater responsibility for health care, others argue that our employer-based health care system is a failing relic of the past and that such gambits are actually counterproductive. Rather than trying to shore up our employer-based system, they say, we should seek to […]
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Loss Prevention
Last week, it was hard to ignore the headlines trumpeting the news of Merck & Co.’s cervical cancer vaccine: “World’s First Cervical Cancer Vaccine to Go On Sale in Weeks;” “Men Should Get Cervical Vaccine Too;” “Doctors Say HPV Vaccine Should be Given to Everyone.” The hullabaloo began in June when the FDA approved Gardasil, […]
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General Hospital
Whatever happened to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into Senator Bill Frist’s sale of his shares in HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain? This is a question that popped into many minds Monday, when HCA, the company that the senator’s family helped found, announced that it is selling to a group of […]
