Blog Posts (5)
April 29, 2013
[CNNMoney] Should a life-saving drug that can be profitably sold for far less cost more than $100,000 per year?
A group of more than 120 cancer researchers and physicians took the unusual step this week of publishing a research paper taking aim at phar...
April 23, 2013
[Medline Plus] When doctors know what hospitals charge for certain lab tests, they order far fewer of them or look for cheaper alternatives, a new study finds.
Currently, hospitals typically keep doctors and patients in the dark about the prices of med...
March 3, 2013
[ProPublica, by Charles Ornstein] My father, sister and I sat in the near-empty Chinese restaurant, picking at our plates, unable to avoid the question that we’d gathered to discuss: When was it time to let Mom die?
It had been a grueling day at ...
February 16, 2013
[Kaiser Health News] Federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered by Medicaid. But a little-known part of the state-federal health insurance program for the poor has long paid about $2 billion a year for emergency treatment for ...
January 14, 2013
[The Guardian] German medical authorities are calling for an extensive overhaul of the country’s organ transplant programme after transplant centres across Germany were placed under criminal investigation over allegations that they had systematic...
