Tag: Health

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

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

We are in the middle of a medical revolution. It is entirely possible that within four to ten years, a person diagnosed with cancer will be able to

Only five patients were cured of lymphoma months after a cancer cure became available. We’ve had a cure for Hepatitis C for years.  But only now is it

Andy Slavitt noted that we tend to have a major discussion about healthcare once every decade. Trouble is, that when we talk about it, we focus mostly on