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Is Fee-For-Service the Problem?

Almost everyone involved in health care will tell you that the greatest…

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Big Brother in Your Medicine Cabinet

Should individuals be required to give up their privacy and submit to…

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Employers Get Tough

The Georgetown authors cite one wellness program that wields a stick. It…

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What Colonoscopies Cost (and Why)

Recent data from a large New York health insurer show that 85…

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Knee Replacement May Save Lives

The US has more knee replacements per capita than any other nation.…

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Cell Phones vs. Health Care

As far as I can tell, access to cell phones is far…

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Treating the Healthy

Screening the apparently healthy potentially saves a few lives (although the National…

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PepsiCo Tries Medical Tourism

Employees of PepsiCo, the world’s second-largest food and beverage business, now have…

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An Online Market for Medical Care

Can you buy health care the way you buy goods and services…

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Google Can Predict Flu Epidemics

Four years ago, Google launched Google Flu Trends, which estimates the prevalence…

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