Despite the candidates calling for lower drug prices--or maybe because of it--drug prices rose almost 8 percent last year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. That's nearly double the general inflation rate. Writes the Journal on the politics of drug prices: Drug makers are trying to keep revenues afloat by raising... Read more
Can healthcare be reformed by supporting primary care doctors? In an arresting commentary on National Public Radio, former assistant Surgeon General (and family physician) Douglas Kamerow argues that U.S. healthcare is expensive and inefficient partly because there aren't enough primary care doctors to coordinate care. Doctors... Read more
When Republicans want to instill fear in voters' hearts, they say Democrats' healthcare plans will result in "socialized medicine." They usually mean to summon images of government control of physician practices, rationing of care by bureaucrats and high taxes to pay for it all. A recent survey about Americans'... Read more
In response to Hillary Clinton's, Barack Obama's and other presidential candidates' calls for more spending on prevention programs, a group of researchers has dug into the existing data on the costs and benefits of disease prevention programs. The results of the prevention study appear in today's New England Journal of... Read more
When people don't have health insurance through an employer or public plan, what do they do? They don't buy health insurance in the individual market, for the most part. That's the finding of a new report on individual health insurance purchasers by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Essentially the researchers found that... Read more
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