Background: Employers are increasingly offering high-deductible health insurance plans with associated health savings accounts (HSAs), but…
The United States is in the throes of the most
serious recession in post-war history. Despite
improving employment numbers, the official…
With the Supreme Court's thunderbolt, a crucial battle is over on health care, but the war surely goes on. Or does it?
There has been a…
Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Roosevelt launched a crusade against the Supreme Court, angry that it was overturning important New Deal…
The risk of medical malpractice varies substantially according to physician specialty. Despite evidence regarding the frequency with which…
Though education spared Massachusetts the fate of other former industrial states, like Michigan, we have an odd way of showing that our…
There is growing concern over the rising share of the US economy
devoted to health care spending. Fueled in part by demographic transitions…
In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years
are malnourished. The corresponding rate in rich countries is…
Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards
episode-based payment, affecting…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…