US Healthcare Explained through Essays & Graphic Novels
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JAMA Looks at Price Transparency
Everyone is clamoring for price transparency in healthcare. Rightfully so. The amount of obscurity in finding prices is obscene. Then patients are stuck with insane bills, having had no clear idea what an MRI or a knee replacement would cos...
US Healthcare is Already Socialized
People who want more government control of healthcare often deride the U.S. system as “for-profit” or “capitalist.” They then blame its dysfunction on too much profit-seeking. Paul Krugman (famed soothsayer who once predicted that the inter...
How To Pay For The Poor?
This very nice lady was seeing me in spine clinic. Her spine was slowly collapsing, its low-density bone submitting to the constant pull of gravity. She didn’t need a neurosurgeon. She needed a primary care doctor to manage her osteoporosis...
Revisiting the Physician Ownership Ban
In 2007, a 44-year-old man underwent elective spine surgery at a small physician-owned hospital in Texas. He developed respiratory arrest after surgery. Staff called 911, and he was transferred to another hospital, where he subsequently die...
News Rundown: August 7, 2026
More Quality Metrics... But work requirements might "work"
- CMS SAYS MIPS IS GOING AWAY. IT’S REPLACING IT WITH… MIPS.
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