LIFE IN THE END ZONE

When Lydia Pinkham (1819-1883) began selling her patent medicine in the mid-nineteenth century, she advertised it as a panacea for all sort...

I said last week that I was a statistics junkie. A related penchant is for reports, especially government reports.  And few reports pull to...

A confession: I’m a data junkie. I don’t generally collect data (though I have carried out a few empirical studies) and I don’t analyze dat...

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...