Monthly Archives: June 2010

Not surprisingly, Congress blinked as we moved through the last decade, and the date of the insolvency of the Medicare trust fund went from 2030 to 2017. Congress piled onto the Medicare problem with a prescription drug benefit that ...

Transitions are one of the weak points in the U.S. health care system. Poor coordination and inadequate communication around transitions is particularly pronounced in the care of frail elderly people with multiple chronic diseases—or...

Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been signed into law, the key question is whether it will lead to improved quality and better value in health care. While many people feel that this is an issue best left to the...

Certainly now that health reform has been signed into law, most of us are looking toward the future, focusing on the daunting task of implementing this major piece of legislation—perhaps the most significant and wide-reaching piece of...

There are several questions I’ve been toiling over lately related to health care spending, public health, and paternalism. Here are three: If the state requires everyone to have health care, does that mean the state should necessarily...