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By DAVID E. WILLIAMS In a report this week, Nursing crisis looms as baby boomers age, CNN Money repeats a well-known story: there are unlikely to be enough nurses to take care of people as they age. Nursing schools can’t...

By MERRILL GOOZNER Allow me to call readers attention to an article in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that calls on medical specialty societies to make lists of the five most wasteful practices in their...

By BOB WACHTER One of the great joys of a life in academic medicine is the opportunity to work with lots of very smart people. But one regret is that there is something about academia that tends to homogenize –...

By MERRILL GOOZNER Now that the Senate has passed its version of health care reform along partisan lines, let's look ahead to the single biggest issue that will draw the most heat in conference: The tax on so-called "Cadillac plans,"...

By MARK HALL Is it unconstitutional to mandate health insurance? It seems unprecedented to require citizens to purchase insurance simply because they live in the U.S. (rather than as a condition of driving a car or owning a business, for...

By MARK MELLMAN A few months ago, I warned that some folks were attempting to misuse healthcare reform to restrict access to abortion. They have come a long way since then, endangering the vital struggle for healthcare — indeed, torpedoing...

By MAX BARTLETT and JOSE AGUILAR One issue has generated little discussion during the heated health care reform debate: whether states should have the right to develop their own approaches to universal coverage. The Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign...

By Matthew Holt Nothing new today from me, but if you're stopping by THCB looking for some post-Xmas inspiration, I thought you might like this essay I'm rather proud from back in THCB's past (back in the dark days of...

By Matthew Holt It's Christmas Eve and the Senate just passed a major health reform bill. Personally I think the reforms in it are relatively minor, but the passage of the bill itself is a screaming big deal. When I...

By DONALD JOHNSON On Monday, liberals sneered when insurers' stocks rose, indicating that speculators thought ObamaCare (HR 3590) would be good for the big regional companies. But today several of the stocks are sinking, probably in response to University of...