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By STEVE FINDLAY Amid fresh political rancor and legal machinations in the ongoing war over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there’s a bright spot: Medicaid. At least for now. This matters. True to predictions made by Obama and supporters when the ACA became law (2010), it has taken years and a lot of blood, sweat ...
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health is a new interview series about the future of the health industry and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. Central to the ‘WTF Health’ ethos is the idea that around ...
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and David Hyman’s forthcoming book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, shortly to be published by the libertarian leaning Cato Institute. In subsequent weeks we’ll feature commentary from the right radical libertarian zone ...
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health is a new interview series about the future of the health industry and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. Having formerly worked for a health plan, I geek out over ...
By ANISH KOKA The year was 1965, the place was Boston Children’s and a surgery resident named Robert Bartlett took his turn at the bedside of a just born baby unable to breathe. This particular baby couldn’t breathe because of a hole in the diaphragm that had allowed the intestines to travel up into the ...
By ANISH KOKA The phone rings. It’s not supposed to be ringing. It’s 2 am. The voice on the other line is from an apologetic surgery resident. Resident: There is this patient.. Me: Yes, go ahead. Please. Resident: He’s tachycardic. Me: How fast Resident: 160 Me: What’s the blood pressure Resident: 130/90 Me: Rhythm ...