LIFE IN THE END ZONE

This week I'm posting a podcast I did for GeriPal about my forthcoming book, "Old and Sick in America: the Journey through the Heal...

The headlines on Tuesday, March 14 focused on two items: the blizzard that was belting the Northeast and the CBO report which predicted tha...

The Princeton health economist, Uwe Reinhardt , first said it in 2004. The private think tank, the McKinsey Global Institute, persuasively ...

The enormous interest in getting good “value” for every dollar spent on health care, whether by individuals, insurers, government, or anyon...

Prescription medications cost more in the US than anywhere else in the world and costs have been skyrocketing each year for the past severa...

The British, I’ve argued previously, are ahead of us in health care for older people. They have more robust geriatric and palliative care p...

Kaiser Health News , one of the best sources of reporting about issues affecting older people, ran a story last week about the re-emergence...

The Senate confirmed Tom Price (R-Georgia) by a 52-47 vote as the new Chief of the Department of Health and Human Services this week. Much ...

The United Kingdom is, in many respects, ahead of the United States in its approach to both geriatrics and palliative care. Cicely Saunders...

My mother’s friend Lixie died last month. Eight months ago, her husband (my father) died. And just about exactly a year ago, my mother’s fr...