Michael L. Millenson
What the uninsured are missing, plain and simple, is a group of individuals with the passion to organize them around the issue. Sep 03, 2009
Howard Gleckman
In truth, seniors are likely to big winners if responsible health reform passes and prime victims if it fails. Aug 31, 2009
Robert Laszewski
From the looks of these health care bills, this “health care reform” thing will be great for business! But as far as “bending the curve” and beginning to make our health care system any more affordable or sustainable—or any less of a burden on patients and taxpayers—I can’t find it. Aug 27, 2009
Jonathan Cohn
The pundits are busy filing their reports on how President Obama blew it on health care reform. And while the health care fight is far from over--I remain convinced the Democrats will pass a bill, maybe even a good one--the pundits have a point. Aug 24, 2009
James C. Capretta
There's no doubt the administration's new health reform sales pitch works much better in focus groups. But does it really describe what's under consideration in Congress? Aug 20, 2009
Howard Gleckman
We live in a time when seemingly no subject is taboo. Yet, there remains one subject Americans seem unable to talk about in an honest and rational way: the inevitable decline of old age. Aug 14, 2009
Pat Basu
In its current state, diagnostic imaging can be seen as "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Congress must separate healthy and unhealthy growth – promoting the benefits while curing malignant growth in imaging through a bill that protects patient access, realigns physician incentives and reduces excessive use. Aug 13, 2009
Joseph Califano
As President Obama and Congress struggle to bend the rising cost curve in order to make health care available to all Americans, the history of the first great expansion of health care coverage when Lyndon Johnson drove Medicare and Medicaid through Congress in 1965 offers some critical lessons. Aug 10, 2009
Jonathan Cohn
If the possibility of lesser reform doesn't motivate liberals, then maybe something else will: the possibility of no reform. Aug 06, 2009
Howard Gleckman
While states and the federal government struggle to update Medicaid though a maze of waiver programs and patches to an increasingly outdated law, their efforts are a little like trying to add disc breaks and electronic ignition to a 1965 Plymouth. It is, in the end, still a 1965 Plymouth. Aug 03, 2009