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health care costs
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AP takes on medical costs of overtreatment
The AP’s Lauran Neergaard has taken on medical overtreatment in America in the first two parts of a six-part series,…
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Blame aggressive treatment, tech for rising costs
Wholesome, clean-living and thrifty, Provo, Utah, has always been a Dartmouth Atlas darling. But in recent years, health costs in…
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Insider offers view of health innovation
Blogging for the Harvard Business Review, Simon Stevens (chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Policy & Modernization) seeks to…
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WSJ: Small hospitals get little benefit from device
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou uses the problems of a small New Hampshire hospital to illustrate how difficult…
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#AHCJ2010 early coverage roundup
Apart from the announcement of the FDA’s infusion pump regulation push, the biggest appearances out of Health Journalism 2010 in…
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Oregonian re-injects meaning into reform clichés
The Oregonian‘s Joe Rojas-Burke clearly has a keen eye for that special place at which jargon and cliché intersect, and…
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Lieberman: Pollack wrong, reform coverage lacking
Last week, Harold Pollack (bio), a University of Chicago professor who has been contributing to The New Republic‘s The Treatment…
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Are insurers to blame for rising costs?
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Carolyn Lochhead and Victoria Colliver use the recent furor over insurer Anthem’s rate hikes to explore…
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Reporters chronicle the death of a sugary drink tax
With a classic tale of powerful established interests, millions and millions of dollars and savvy lobbying, Chicago Tribune reporters Tom…
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Academics: Media added to reform confusion
Health News Florida’s Carol Gentry talked to journalism professors at three major Florida universities about the effect of media coverage…