Analysis: One Sure Thing About COVID-19: No Telling How Many People Have It
In an era when we get flash-flood warnings on our phones and weekly influenza statistics from every state, vital knowledge about the coronavirus outbreak is being kept under wraps.
Analysis: Who Profits From Steep Medical Bills? The People Tasked With Fixing Them.
Surprise bills are just the latest weapons in a decades-long war among health care industry players over who gets to keep聽the fortunes generated each year from patient illness: $3.6 trillion聽in 2018. The practice is an outrage, yet no one in the health care sector wants to unilaterally make the type of big concessions that would change things.
No enmascares la mejor forma de evitar el aterrador coronavirus: l谩vate las manos
La editora de KHN cubri贸 para The New York Times el brote de SARS en China. Y sabe de primera mano lo que funcion贸 entonces, y lo que funcionar铆a ahora para prevenir al coronavirus.
No Masking The Best Way To Avoid The Scary Coronavirus: Wash Your Hands
While covering the SARS outbreak as a reporter in China, KHN’s editor-in-chief saw that common sense is the best defense against viral illness.
Analysis: In Medical Billing, Fraudulent Charges Weirdly Pass As Legal
After my husband had a bike accident, we were subjected to medical bills that no one would accept if they had been delivered by a contractor, or a lawyer or an auto mechanic. Such charges are sanctioned by insurers, which generally pay because they have no way to know whether you received a particular item or service 鈥 and it鈥檚 not worth their time to investigate the millions of medical interactions they write checks for each day.
Analysis: Choosing A Plan From The Impossible Health Care Maze
In 21st-century US health care, everything is revenue, and so everything is billed.
Analysis: Elizabeth Warren Throws Down The Gauntlet
She has led the way, but all the candidates need to come clean about their health care proposals.
Analysis: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Health Care Costs
It鈥檚 easy to criticize pharmaceutical and insurance companies. But we spend much more on hospitals.
Por qu茅 Amazon Alexa puede ser mala para la atenci贸n de salud
Las firmas de capital privado y de riesgo est谩n enamoradas de una legi贸n de nuevas empresas que promocionan los beneficios de las visitas m茅dicas virtuales… 驴son buenas?
Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care
Amazon’s personal assistant is gaining medical skills to provide coaching or transmit and monitor patient data. Besides the loss of the human touch, virtual medicine pursued in the name of business efficiency or profit bodes ill.
An谩lisis: cambios en el sistema de salud eliminar铆an 2 millones de empleos, y est谩 bien
Cualquier reforma significativa requerir铆a una realineaci贸n importante del sector de atenci贸n m茅dica, que ahora es el mayor empleador en al menos una docena de estados.
Analysis: A Health Care Overhaul Could Kill 2 Million Jobs, And That鈥檚 OK
Reform has a cost. But the point of a health care system is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy.
Analysis: Why Americans Shouldn鈥檛 Feel Grateful For $137 Insulin
Only by the bizarre logic of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry does this drug count as any kind of generic.
Analysis: Pulling Back Curtain On Hospital Prices Adds New Wrinkle In Cost Control
The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to reveal their prices. If patients and politicians pay attention, this could be a game changer for health care.
驴Pueden los estados reparar el desastre que es el sistema de salud?
La legalizaci贸n del matrimonio gay comenz贸 en algunos estados y se convirti贸 en una ley nacional. La marihuana parece seguir la misma ruta. 驴Podr铆a ser el caso de la reforma sanitaria?
Analysis: Can States Fix The Disaster Of American Health Care?
The governor of California has proposed some big ideas. Who knows whether he can pull them off, but there鈥檚 reason for hope.
Politicians Hop Aboard ‘Medicare-For-All’ Train, Destination Unknown
Candidates are charging toward midterm elections on a platform of single-payer and universal coverage rhetoric. Yet 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 and single-payer mean different things to different people.
