Health care

Original Reporting | Mike Alberti, Meade Klingensmith | Advertising, Health care, Insurance
Oct. 24, 2012 — In late September, the Wall Street Journal reported that two large corporations — Sears Holding Corp. and Darden Restaurants Inc. — will soon dramatically change the way that they...view
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Corporate influence, Health care, Insurance
Oct. 24, 2012 — As explained in the accompanying article, the main reason motivating an employer to move to a defined contribution system is to reduce its own cost curve for employee benefits below...view
Editorial Cartoons | | Elections, Health care, Politics
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Interviews | Heather Rogers | Health care, Role of government
Oct. 10, 2012 — Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is a practicing internist, and co-founder and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program. Dr. Woolhandler is a professor at the City...view
Editorial Cartoons | | Health care
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Press Criticism | Mike Alberti | Health care, Medicine
July 29, 2012 — The causes of — and solutions for — many of the problems plaguing the U.S. health care system continue to generate intense disagreement. The severe shortage of doctors, however,...view
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Health care, Insurance
June 20, 2012 — According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), nearly $850 billion was funneled through private health insurance companies in the United States in 2010, the most...view
Press Criticism | Craig Gurian | Health care, Medicine
June 6, 2012 — At least she doesn’t place most of the blame on patients. Usually, articles or policy papers imagining that Americans are getting too much medical care focus on a population that,...view
Letters to the Editor | | Editorial cartoon, Health care, Military, Veterans
May 10, 2012 — The cartoon [The band plays on] by Matt Davies captures a serious issue which continues to be ignored. Our veterans need a voice: the federal government is too big to care; the state...view
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Health care, Medicine, Regulation
May 2, 2012 — A recent study showing that the adoption of information technology by physicians did not reduce the number of procedures performed was seen as worrisome both by the popular press and by...view

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