I have been appalled at the White Nationalists like Rudy Giuliani who think the "Black Lives Matter" movement is aimed only at pol...

Actually WHO doesn't say that. The World Health Organization ranks the health care systems of its members. WHO's on first? Franc...

Two weeks ago we were all watching the Winter Olympics in Sochi (as Putin was plotting the takeover of Crimea), frequently interrupted by a ...

Last night Bradley Flinn, owner of S/V the Shire, died at Pitt Memorial Hospital. Those who knew him knew a very nice man. He was a Navy v...

In a recent New York Times op-ed piece, columnist Timothy Egan describes the refusal to expand Medicaid as the South's new "lost ca...

Economist Brad DeLong calls attention to a piece by Jim Tankerslee in Ezra Klein's Blog. Tankerslee explains the problems poor workers i...

Here is an excellent report examining how different states do under the Affordable Care Act. The report has a good summary graph of the dif...

Information is accumulating that the McRory Administration war on Medicaid and the General Assembly's refusal to expand Medicaid is frau...

"The Republican Party is bending its entire will, staking its very soul, fighting to its last breath, in service of a crusade to.... ...

Want to know how hospital costs compare for surgical procedures? You mostly can't find out. Unless you have the surgery done in Oklaho...

Good summary in today's New York Times of the accomplishments to date of the Affordable Care Act. Even though the complete law doesn...

There are a lot of more or less rational arguments that can be raised in favor of changing some social and economic policies. One that does ...

Here's a link to an account of a pregnant woman who was in essence tortured to death in a Galway hospital. Judging from this Spring...

As experts review the 193-page Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, some of the consequences of the decision are becoming more...

Today's Supreme Court ruling is good news, not only for those many Americans now uninsured, but also for all Americans who might lose a ...

Whatever the Supreme Court has to say about the Affordable Care Act this morning, my order of preference for a health care system would be: ...

Why does the US spend more on health care costs than other advanced countries? Another fair question might be, why are our health care outco...

Did you know that death from prescription drug overdose now exceeds all other accidental deaths, including automobile accident? We learned...

I don't read the obituary pages. But one can't escape the headlines. One message comes through loud and clear: A lot of people my ...

I was pleased to learn this morning that the president will issue an executive order to resolve critical shortages of drugs for treating li...