Category: Health Care

Healthcare is eating up more and more of our money. Over the past 20 years, our compensation has gone up 121% but our income has gone up a

In his introduction, former Senator William Frist writes, “Was Uwe conservative or liberal, a Republican or a Democrat? I could never figure it out.” I suspect you won’t

Uwe Reinhardt was right when he said that “Logically, it must be true that all spending on the health care system in any country originates 100 percent from

Some say we are close to curing cancer; others that we are close to making cancer a chronic illness. Still others contend that cancer is already a chronic

A drug that’s been used for 3000 years to treat gout saw its price increase 50-fold; an old drug that helps prevent premature births suddenly costs $400 per

“If you want an egalitarian distribution of health care,” providers said, “we endorse it heartily, and we shall do our best to bring it about but for a

This is a great book that takes us on a fun comparative healthcare tour round the world. It talks about the different ways countries structure their universal healthcare

How do we go from a healthcare system where we have to hustle for services to one where the system hustles for our business? The Affordable Care Act

Earlier, I described some of the problems with our healthcare system. I then told you I thought structuring our market the way the Bismarck model does could get

We like to tell ourselves that even though we pay eight to ten times more for healthcare than any other country, we get the best care.  But that’s