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A better way to cap out-of-pocket Medicare costs

Last month, a House Democratic Party committee led by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) offered a menu for health care reforms they plan to consider during the next Congress. The 84-page document, first repor...

6 days ago
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Neoliberalism is bad for your health

This book review ran first on the Washington Monthly website:

America’s Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era.

By John E. McDonough, Johns Hopkins University Press, 472 pp.

Last March, West Suburban Medical Center, a 230-bed...

13 days ago
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Pharma firms delay completing FDA-ordered studies

The Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing next Thursday on the nomination of Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration. I’m reprinting (see below) an article from today’s KFF Health New...

24 days ago
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Before the fall

When the Census Bureau reported today that the uninsured population remained steady at its all-time low of 8% of the adult population in 2025, I immediately thought of this visual metaphor to describe the news:

The picture is of one Wile...

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Tax changes are long overdue

Voters repeatedly tell pollsters the economy and health care are their top worries this election season. They are being pummeled by rapid increases in what they have to pay for food, fuel, hospital services, health insurance premiums, drugs...

a month ago
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