The dark side of healthcare reform
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AFTER EXTENDING healthcare coverage to more than 150,000 previously uninsured residents over the past year, Massachusetts health reform took a turn for the worse this month with the Patrick administration's proposal to limit the state's Free Care Pool.
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At some point in life every American enters through the doors of a hospital. Health care is a connection that can&#39;t be avoided which makes it a crucial issue in the presidential campaign.
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&quot;In a survey of 660 patients who had cut back on their medications because they could not afford them, the majority didn&#39;t tell their physicians,&quot; said lead researcher John Piette, a career
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction &#151; the state is expanding its role and, with reliance on the private sector, aiming to provide affordable health insurance for all 138,000 residents now without it.
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6 Perspective article on health reform (&quot;A referendum on health care&quot;). Hoff detailed the findings of a recent Commonwealth Fund Survey concerning the public&#39;s view of the health care system and then applied
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The District is seeing more avoidable hospitalizations among children and middle-aged adults, a puzzling trend that includes insured and uninsured groups and raises complex issues of health-care access, quality and capacity.
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A provocative study from Harvard Medical School suggests that, as a group, older doctors know less, provide lower-quality care, and may expose patients to greater risks than physicians recently out of medical school, a conclusion that an accompanying editorial declares should be "a wake-up call to the medical profession."
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Most Americans agree our health insurance system is too expensive and leaves too many without coverage. There isn't much agreement on what to do about it.
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NEWS REPORTS of recent efforts to reduce malpractice insurance costs have missed what is needed: genuine reform of the medical justice system.
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In many respects, Michael Moore's new movie, "Sicko," is like a trial for those who oversee health care in the United States. The industry &#151; doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers &#151; is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'. Moore heard from thousands of people who had maddening and heartbreaking brushes with this system.
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Consumer-directed health care (CDHC) - high-deductible plans often touted as the answer to spiraling health care costs - is not likely to curb health care costs, and could even worsen health outcomes by reducing patients&#39; receipt of needed preventive care
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Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care.
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In the absence of federal action, governors and state legislators are transforming the health care system.
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National studies have found that more than 90 million Americans are unable to adequately understand basic health information.
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Reforms to out-of-hours health care have been &quot;thoroughly mishandled&quot; by the Department of Health and only GPs have benefited from the new deal, according to a withering report from the Public Accounts Committee published on Wednesday.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are promoting very different plans for improving the nation&#39;s troubled health care system, either of which could dramatically change how millions
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.