February 19, 2008

HILLARYCARE'S SICKENING FOR OUR NATIONAL SOUL

About half of health care expenditures in 1960 were directly controlled by consumers; today, it's only about 15 percent, says Dr. David Gratzer...

BOSTON HERALD

CRANKING UP THE VOLUME

MRI and CT scanning has been the fastest-growing component of health care inflation in recent years, say observers...

FORBES

TELEMEDICINE HOLDS PROMISE FOR HEALTH CARE

Telemedicine can remedy several of the problems currently plaguing the health care industry, says Devon Herrick...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS/HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS SLOW TO EMBRACE TELEMEDICINE OPTIONS

Patients control only 13 cents of each dollar spent on medical care, which gives providers little incentive to pay for the technological upgrades required for telemedicine, says Devon Herrick...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS/HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

HOW MEDICARE CAN REDUCE WASTE AND IMPROVE THE CARE OF THE CHRONICALLY ILL

By targeting Americans with chronic illnesses, Medicare can begin to solidify a strategy of rewarding providers for truly improving care, say researchers...

HEALTH AFFAIRS

STATIN OF CONFUSION

Patients and physicians must weigh benefits versus risks when assessing a drug, as there is no such thing as absolute safety, says Krystal Wilson...

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH/WALL STREET JOURNAL