Plus, the Supreme Court hears a case about healthcare price transparency, primary care docs have new incentives to coordinate care, while investors flock to medical device stocks.
Dr. Atul Gawande has done it again. Writing in the New Yorker, Gawande, a general surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, author and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, painstakingly explains the “epidemic of unnecessary care” that bears much of the blame for the country’s runaway healthcare costs and preventable deaths. Gawande also looked […]
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For the fifth consecutive year, federal healthcare spending grew less than 4 percent in 2013 – a markedly lower rate than the historical average of 7.2 percent per year from 1990-2008. But government actuaries and economists say we shouldn’t expect slow growth to last much longer. New estimates from the Office of the Actuary at […]
Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street’s second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under control. Now everybody’s trying to sort out the mixed message. The answer matters because deficit debates and affordability concerns revolve around forecasts that health spending will […]
Stupidity is in the eye of the beholder. Smoking is “stupid,” some would say, because it is unequivocally bad for one’s health. But what if the pleasure gained from smoking outweighs the decrease in life expectancy? Is that still stupid? The United States of America has a general paradigm for dealing with these questions. Americans […]