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Obamacare and Donut Holes

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If you thought donuts were bad for your health, consider donut holes.  Specifically, the donut hole sitting smack in the middle of Medicare Part D, the program helping senior citizens pay for their medications.  The donut hole is a gap in coverage causing people, once they’ve received a certain level of financial support for their prescriptions, to have to go it alone for a while, bea
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When Harry and Louise Met Hillary

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As part of the Duke undergraduate course I teach on health care policy, I recently  prepared a lecture on Bill Clinton’s ultimately  futile efforts to reform the US health care  system early in his first term of office, back in  1993. This preparation gave me an excuse to  read Theda Skocpol’s wonderful book, Boomerang.
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Why Many Physicians Are Reluctant to See Medicaid Patients

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In an earlier post, I presented some data on which kind of physicians in the United States are most and least likely to see new patients who receive Medicaid, the state/federal program to pay healthcare costs for low income people. Now a recent study lays out some reasons why many physicians are so reluctant to see such patients….

Are Insurance Companies the Key to Lower Prices?

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Two patients lie asleep on operating room tables, each with an inflamed appendix demanding to be relocated to a specimen jar.  Two operations take place, each one lasting close to fifty minutes, each one performed by an experienced surgeon at a state-of-the-art U.S. hospital.  One operation was priced at $1200 dollars.  But the other one…

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