In 2022, the United States spent $4.5 trillion on healthcare—an astonishing $13,500 per person. That’s a level of spending no other country can fathom. We
The American healthcare debate is often a pendulum swinging between two extremes: maintaining the status quo and adopting a single-payer system. But what if we’re
Medicare Advantage are plans with private companies that contract with Medicare to deliver services. Some of these plans work great, but many of them have
A recent study said that single-payer Medicare for everybody would cost the government A LOT of money. But it would also $2 TRILLION less than
Every once in a while, we like to take a moment and focus on health systems around the world. Today, we’re looking at Taiwan, which
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company). It is jointly authored by Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt. Taiwan is proof
Alexander Burns and Jennifer Medina report in The New York Times that At rallies and in town hall meetings, and in a collection of blue-state
Jonathan Oberlander has written a fantastic Viewpoint in the NEJM, “The Virtues and Vices of Single-Payer Health Care“. Go read it. Totally worth your time.
Diabetes on the decline? Switzerland votes on single payer! For those of you who came here for references or more information, here you go: Prevalence
Indianapolis has been pretty much shut down this week by weather. A retreat I was supposed to attend was cancelled today, giving me the unexpected
This is a companion post to my earlier one that listed ways in which the ACA could accommodate conservative reforms. I assert that the ACA
I’m like the millionth person to pile on this Suzanne Sommers editorial (seriously, what was the WSJ thinking?), but I have to get my two
