New Study Finds Patients Regularly Mugged in the Dark
A while back I wrote about my experience being shaken down for over $4,000 when I had to take my daughter for a simple x-ray after she hurt her foot while we we...
Tag: healthcare reform
Actually, Mr. Brill, Fixing Healthcare Is Kinda Simple
When you need health care, you enter not a market but a con game in which you're first a guarantor and source of profit, and second a patient. Wired Science blo...
Notables from Out-n-About 03/17/2010 (a.m.)
Reading, ants, reading about ants, and Ezra Klein fact-checks David Brooks
Ezra Klein – America spends way, way, way more on health care
We don’t have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government’s partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run...
Nate Silver’s top ten reasons the public option is surging
Nate Silver gives 10 reasons the public option is surging. I throw in my doubts and caveats.
If Vermont is #1 in health care, this country’s in big trouble
The steps we've taken, while half-measures to be sure, reflect the state's essential decency and civility. Yet Vermont's distinction is not in curing the health...
Healthcare reform roundup: The Turnaround
The tone of discussions of reform in both Congress and the blogosphere has changed remarkably over the last few days. It's gone from pessimistic to optimistic, ...
Health-Care Secret Revealed, Again: More Is Not Better
"If there's any way out of our current health-care morass, it's this: In health care, more expensive care is often no better than less expensive care."
The Power of Anecdote
"if a skilled physician cannot resist orders for expensive tests and unnecessary drugs, there is no chance that individual consumers, even if they have more ski...
Dipstick: religious brains, more school, more meds, states rights, and dancing with the unwilling. Plus Ardi, free
This implies that religious beliefs and behavior emerged not as sui generis evolutionary adaptations, but as an extension (some would say "by product") of soci...