Healthcare
What Happens to Healthcare Costs When Nonprofit Hospitals Take a Financial Hit?
The answer has implications for the debate over the Affordable Care Act.
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Healthcare
What Happens to Patient Care When There Are Not Enough Nurses?
The impact can be significant, especially in nursing homes.
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Healthcare
A Healthcare Policy Expert on Four Key Differences Between the ACA and the AHCA
Craig Garthwaite explains how the GOP proposal could impact patients, insurers, and hospitals.
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Healthcare
Under the ACA, the Cost of Caring for the Uninsured Decreased for Hospitals
The benefit has come only in states that expanded Medicaid.
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Operations
Is There a Better Way to Allocate Organs to Transplant Patients?
Two ideas for changing a system where people linger on waitlists while kidneys spoil.
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Healthcare
The Hidden Benefits of TV Drug Ads
Patients and taxpayers benefit from controversial direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
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Entrepreneurship
Can Your Invention Take the Heat?
An infant HIV test offers lessons for entrepreneurs designing for tough conditions.
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Healthcare
Why Healthcare Spending Has Slowed
Is the Affordable Care Act getting too much credit?
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Healthcare
Who Bears the Cost of the Uninsured? Nonprofit Hospitals.
When governments do not provide health insurance, hospitals must provide it instead.
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Healthcare
Collaborating to Save Lives
For an integrated healthcare organization, culture is the key to operational efficiency.
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Healthcare
Rebooting Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
Would employees be happier with more health plan choices?
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Healthcare
When Hospitals Turn Away Ambulances
Uncovering flaws in a policy intended to prevent ER overcrowding
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Healthcare
How Poverty Damages Health
Anti-poverty programs boost recipients’ well-being
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Healthcare
A Patient, Not a Person
Medicine’s bad habit of dehumanizing patients
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Healthcare
Patients, Pricing, and Prescription Drugs
Maximizing social benefit from the Medicaid drug program
