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Healthcare
When doctors need to learn "webside" manner
Jan 29, 2018
A New York hospital is introducing telescreens into the emergency room in an effort to save time — and possibly money.
Why your doctor still relies on fax machines
by
Adriene Hill
and Sean McHenry
Dec 27, 2017
The answer: a combination of work culture and well-intended policy gone awry.
Health insurance ads were up this year despite a slashed budget
Dec 15, 2017
Today is the last day to enroll in Obamacare insurance plans. Earlier this year, the Trump administration slashed the Affordable Care Act advertising budget by $90 million, so many people assumed there would be far fewer TV ads encouraging people to sign up. But it turns out there’s been 51 percent more insurance commercials compared […]
How one sentence helped set off the opioid crisis
by
Caitlin Esch
Dec 13, 2017
Recently unsealed documents shed light on how the maker of OxyContin seems to have relied more on focus groups than on scientific studies to create an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.
Would Trump's executive order make better, cheaper health care? Only kind of
by
Adriene Hill
and Sean McHenry
Oct 12, 2017
Today, when the president signed an executive order expanding coverage options outside of the Obamacare marketplaces, he promised that the order would create more insurance options at “lower prices, and for millions of Americans.” Actually, the order is asking federal agencies to broaden the use of short-term insurance options, which aren’t beholden to the coverage […]
Health care premiums for 2018 set to go up by as much as 50 percent
by
Dan Gorenstein
and Jana Kasperkevic
Oct 5, 2017
The cost of uncertainty: President Donald Trump's threat to Obamacare subsidies drives up premiums.
For public good, not for profit.
'It is a terrible mistake' to vote on health care bill without a CBO score, the former director says
by
Kai Ryssdal
May 4, 2017
Douglas Elmendorf says the agency will build on the estimated economic impact for the original legislation.
Trump 'confident' Obamacare replacement will pass Senate
May 4, 2017
The House approved the bill 217-213.