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Long Waits Cost Canadians Millions

More than 825,000 Canadians were waiting for some type of treatment after…

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Life Expectancy Inequality

This is from a Bloomberg column by Peter Orszag: This is from…

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Why Not Let the Dead Pay for Medicare?

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has a novel (if not original) idea.…

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Great Moments in the History of Patient Power

If there was a moment when the modern-day relationship between physicians and…

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How Medicare Spends Its Drug Dollars

Drug Class 2008 Drug Cost ANTIHYPERLIPIDEMICS $6,165,831,884 ANTIPSYCHOTICS/ANTIMANIC $5,698,011,103

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Making Cigarette Smoking Uncool

Pause to consider the logic here. We decide it is not a…

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Is Medicare A Good Deal?

Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes…

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In-Home Care Goes High Tech

The lab includes a “model home” to test new gadgets. One is…

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Government as Doctor

U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled…

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Global Warming: Good for Your Health?

Six centuries after the Black Death ravaged Europe, the gruesomeness of the…

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