A cancer diagnosis is one of the scariest of all. The pain and fear are worsened by a confusing landscape of bills, opaque billing systems and changing insurance rules, rates and reimbursements.
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The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
The Trump administration’s latest effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act is the expansion of short-term insurance plans. But these shorter plans are also short on real benefits.
A routine childbirth proves expensive and complicated. Insurance company adjustments, inconsistent billing and mystery costs flummoxed even a health policy expert and his wife, a teacher.
Corruption in Nigeria’s health sector can be eliminated by the implementation of a few simple strategies.
Noted physician and author Atul Gawande was named CEO of a new health care venture aimed at cutting costs and improving care. But the most important man to keep an eye on in this effort isn’t Gawande. It’s the middleman.
Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
The rising costs of generic drugs have led to outcries. In a search for solutions, four hospital systems are proposing to make drugs on their own. Could their idea work?
Poor diet kills hundreds of thousands per year. If we want to achieve meaningful health care reform, we need to address our nation’s nutrition crisis.
To work out how to reduce the out-of-pocket costs for specialist care, we first need to identify why they are so high.
After the Senate nixed a repeal of Obamacare, Pres. Trump turned to Twitter, vowing to let the law die. But he’s actually doing much more. Here’s how he’s taking an active part in destroying the law.
Nearly one-fifth of US GDP is spent on health care. Where does all of that money go?
Rather than being designed by chemists, this class of pharmaceuticals is produced by living cells. Here’s where they come from and how they work.
Specialty prescription drugs are responsible for countless medical miracles, but their high price tag is the main reason health care costs are out of control.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
For many of the nation’s poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.
Walking has been proven to reduce the risk of heart disease, bowel and breast cancers, osteoporosis and diabetes. New data shows it also reduces the need for hospital care.
President Trump has proposed a major funding shift for Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that pays for health care for about 75 million poor people. Would the safety net fray if he did so?
Patients are an important part of improving health care quality; doctors can’t make good decisions for patients by themselves. Here are some things you can do to help take care of yourself.
Every day, more discount pharmacy stores and chains are opening and assaulting health-care consumers with the “we are cheaper” message.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Physician, New York University
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Clinical Assistant Professor School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
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Dean of Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor, Neurology, University of Florida
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Managment, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Research Scientist and Director of Research Training in Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Adjunct Associate Professor, City University of New York
