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health care costs
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Utah tests hybrid bundled payment system
The Salt Lake Tribune‘s Lisa Rosetta explains Utah’s new bulk payment pilot program, which aims to drive down costs by…
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Bankruptcy: Health insurance for the desperate
In The New York Times, reporter Kevin Sack visits Nashville, Tenn. to tell stories from the front lines of health…
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One town’s end-of-life talks lead to living wills
NPR’s Joseph Shapiro has unearthed an outlier in the nation’s health care cost numbers, one which demonstrates the reality of…
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NYT Mag takes deep look at data-driven medicine
David Leonhardt, writing for New York Times Magazine, profiles Brent James and Intermountain Healthcare, the hospital network he helps oversee.…
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Industry unleashes millions to fight sugary drink tax
Joe Eaton of the Center for Public Integrity and Christine Spolar of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund look into how…
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ProPublica: How will reform apply to individuals?
Photo by jayKayEss via Flickr. Olga Pierce, one of the keepers of ProPublica’s Eye on Health Care Reform page, is…
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We have public options now. Are they any good?
ProPublica’s Sabrina Shankman reviews America’s existing “public options” for health care, finding mixed results and limited utility. In addition to…
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Parikh: Malpractice reform’s no cost-cutter
Rahul Parikh, M.D., writing on Salon.com, talks about his own tendencies toward defensive medicine and debunks the idea that malpractice…
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Bundled payments may improve care, lower costs
Kaiser Health News’ Phil Galewitz looks at bundling hospital payments, a possible solution to the confusion and cost of separate…
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Rural health costs: Lower, but just as uneven
Writing on the rural news site Daily Yonder, Bill Bishop and Julie Ardery take a look at the Dartmouth Atlas,…