For policymakers to cut medical spending, they must persuade doctors that some procedures are unnecessary. A friendly debate between two cardiologists over using stents to unclog arteries shows how hard it may be to achieve that consensus. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
(Story) Aug 27, 2009
Journalist and author T.R. Reid traveled the world, including Britain, in search of a better health care system. He talks about this journey in his new book -- The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.
(Daily Report) Aug 26, 2009
Community members in New Orleans find creative solutions to address the city's health needs.
(Daily Report) Aug 26, 2009
An Iowa hospital has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the federal government to settle claims that it illegally overpaid physicians in an effort to boost business.
(Daily Report) Aug 26, 2009
The New York Times, in a series of ongoing stories about health care delivery in other countries, interviewed John Creighton Campbell, of the University of Michigan and visiting researcher at the Tokyo University Institute of Gerontology who has studied Japan's health care system.
(Daily Report) Aug 26, 2009
Proposals to move disadvantaged youngsters from the Children's Health Insurance Program to health exchanges raise concerns that benefits would be reduced.
(Daily Report) Aug 25, 2009
At a Baltimore clinic for the homeless, officials look to reform efforts to expand Medicaid and help provide more services.
(Daily Report) Aug 25, 2009
As health reform efforts loom on the over Congress's upcoming sessions, news reports find models of innovation in their own backyards. Geisinger Health System in rural Pennsylvania, the Jacksonville, Fla., satellite of the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Oregon and Washington state, and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va., all get some attention.
(Daily Report) Aug 25, 2009
A presidential panel released a report that says swine flu could infect up to half of the U.S. population. It warns that schools could be acutely affected and urges the release of vaccines and drugs in September.
(Daily Report) Aug 25, 2009
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
(Daily Report) Aug 25, 2009