Objective: To examine the impact of incentive formularies on prescription drug utilization and spending after introduction of new pharmacy…
Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost…
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private…
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in
the first nine waves of the Health and…
The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most…
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these…