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Pay for the person – not the procedures
When people talk about Health Policy it’s often shorthand for covering the uninsured. But improving access without tackling costs is…
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Popular bypass technique may raise risks
There’s nothing too glamorous about bypass surgery. Your chest gets cracked wide open and the surgeon probably uses veins stripped…
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Health Policy scrapes by on $1 trillion
You might think that more than $1 trillion, even when spread over 10 years, would be enough to cure all…
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Swine flu blues: Vaccinations could be delayed
Summertime and forgetting about swine flu is easy. But the World Health Organization yanked us back to reality. The H1N1…
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Generic biotech is coming – eventually
When people carp about the high prices of drugs, the poster kids are often the biotech wonders that can cost…
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JAMA drops gag rule for whistle-blowers
Disclosure of potential conflicts in health care always seems like a great idea until people start asking questions about you.…
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NIH rules more stem cells eligible for funding
Right off the bat let’s just note that the promised cures from stem cells have been slow in coming. Science…
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Ex-Hill honchos make lobbying roundtrip
You can’t tell the health-care lobbyists without a program. So The Washington Post, working with data from the Center for…
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FDA rethinks ‘black box’ warning
Quitting smoking, always nerve-racking, may prove even tougher in the wake of a Food and Drug Administration decision to require…
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Let the comparison shopping begin
The august Institute of Medicine is out with academic medicine’s answer to the Billboard Hot 100. A panel of experts…