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Red carpet treatment
Editorial Cartoons | Health care, Income inequality
May 15, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better.view
Another perspective on health care overutilization and underutilization
Letters to the Editor | Health care, Insurance
March 26, 2013 — I have very mixed feelings about Mike Alberti’s article [“Keeping the ‘best care’ option out of the health spending equation”] about the focus on cost/...view
Keeping the “best care” option out of the health spending equation
Original Reporting |
Mike Alberti
 | Health care, Insurance, Quality of life
Feb. 27, 2013 — If there is a single message that has come to dominate the debate over health care in the United States in the last several years, it is that Americans are receiving too much of it....view
Kennedy and Nixon as partners on health care reform
Letters to the Editor | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Feb. 15, 2013 — All in all, “Managed Cost, Mismanaged Care” is pretty accurate — with one big exception. I know that congressional health care leaders (at least in 1971) did not view HMOs and...view
The role of the New Democrats in the explosion of managed care
Original Reporting |
Meade Klingensmith
 | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Feb. 20, 2013 — The “New Democrats” of the 1990s — those who thought the Democratic Party should move further to the right and position itself as a “centrist” alternative to the GOP — promoted a...view
Managed cost, mismanaged care
Original Reporting |
Meade Klingensmith
 | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Feb. 13, 2013 — Dr. Molly Droge is the chair of the subcommittee on access to care at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Growing up in West Texas, she lived next door to an old general practice...view
The lack of “affordability” in the Affordable Care Act
Letters to the Editor | Health care, Insurance
Jan. 15, 2013 — [In response to the following statment from “Even with the Affordable Care Act, health insurance coverage for many families may remain unaffordable”:] The ACA generally...view
Déjà vu
Editorial Cartoons | Health care
Jan. 16, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better.view
Even with the Affordable Care Act, health insurance coverage for many families may remain unaffordable
Original Reporting |
Mike Alberti
 | Health care, Insurance
Jan. 15, 2013 — Any hopes that large employers would be penalized for failing to offer affordable insurance coverage to the spouses and dependent children of their employees under the Patient...view
American roulette
Editorial Cartoons | Health care, Insurance
Jan. 9, 2013 — Have a higher resolution monitor? Click here for screen resolutions of 1280 x 960 or better, or here for 1920 x 1200 or better.view