Worth It?
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At $3.9 trillion, in 2017 alone we spent nearly 4x Apple’s net worth on healthcare.
Read More"It's the prices, stupid."
/Heavy users of healthcare are sometimes referred to as the “frequent fliers” of the industry. But the similarity between healthcare and airfare has more to do with pricing than consumer behavior: think airports and hospitals, where sandwiches and bandaids always cost more than you think they should. This 2018 overview by the NYT summarizes multiple studies pointing to the role pricing plays in the U.S.’ out of control cost curve.
Economy Up, Insured Children Down
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More than a quarter million children lost health insurance this year — the first decline in over a decade.
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What Do Guns & Sugar Have in Common?→
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The debate on guns needs to be reframed. This article shows how guns are eroding public health.
Read MorePatient, Heal Thyself!
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If you’ve ever researched a health issue online, using Google, a symptom checker, or some other source, this article gives you a glimpse of how physicians feel about that…
Read MoreThe Great Destroyer
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Guns are woven into the fabric of our everyday lives; and they are destroying it. Road rage, discussed by this New York Times article last year, is just one of the ways.
Read MoreWhat Is This?→
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Do patients and doctors agree on who really controls your personal medical data?
Read MoreEye of the Beholder: What Is Health?
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What is health? How do you know when you have it, and when you don’t? Do measures of health really capture what it is? How do people from around the world and from other periods of time think of health?