Medicare Pays to Treat Heart Patients Who Smoke, but Doesn’t Help Them Quit
Cardiac patients who continue to smoke face a risk of death that…
Will Washington Prevent a Cure for Cancer?
The United States can rightly claim the title of medicine chest to…
Health Care Reform in 2 Short Sentences
Foes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) made a…
Can the Gang of Six Change the Way We Pay For Health Care?
A bipartisan group of senators is proposing to reduce the federal deficit…
Debt Ceiling Negotiations on Health Care are Mere Cost Shifting
The US definitely seems to have weakened itself in the international sphere…
Florida Proposing New Medicaid Fees
The state of Florida wants to impose $10 monthly premiums on Medicaid…
Within Debt Ceiling Debate, House Dems ‘Just Say No’ to Medicare Cuts
Democrats don’t want them. House Minority Leader Pelosi reminded Obama about them.…
The One Medicare Program that Actually Works
This is Avik Roy, writing in National Affairs: This is Avik Roy,…
Lawsuit Filed Against Quest Diagnostics for Overcharging
Andrew Baker was fired from a company that Quest purchased, Unilab, when…
Why Not Let the Dead Pay for Medicare?
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has a novel (if not original) idea.…