Rising Healthcare Costs in the USA

Opaque and sky high bills are breaking Americans — and our health care system. (2017)

Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Hint: it isn’t big pharma | Business (2023)

American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)

A consortium of hospital systems and three foundations is moving ahead with a nonprofit drugmaker that would produce some of the generic medicines ... (2018)

In a new, detailed international comparison, the United States looks a lot more like its peers than researchers expected. (2018)

The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)

Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?  (2020)

A new report looks at data from 184 countries. And raises the question: Does more spending lead to better health outcomes? (2017)

Doctors and hospitals routinely have to pay settlements to clear "upcoding" allegations. The health care system's complex payment system gives d... (2017)

Dr. Gajendra Singh is suing to overturn North Carolina’s "certificate of need" law. (2018)

Vox’s emergency room database shows that patients can face steep bills even when they decline treatment. (2018)

The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half. The evidence-based medicine problem: US doctors cling to procedur... (2017)

America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care. Overkill: An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What c... (2018)

"Why doctors get paid too much and what we should do about it. "The United States pays more than twice as much per person for health care as oth... (2017)

Exclusive: 71 million people stand to benefit from reduced price treatment for virus which can lead to liver cirrhosis, cancer and death (2018)

Rapid consolidation has created powerful groups of hospitals, with organizations dictating prices and fueling health spending in some areas of the ... (2018)

Why does the cost of education and healthcare services continue to rise rapidly, while the cost of goods rise much more slowly? According to econom... (2020)

Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs this much - Los Angeles Times. Cathy Birker-Hake tripped over a hose in her Va... (2019)

Cigna, a major insurer, is capping monthly insulin costs at $25. It’s a Band-Aid on a much bigger problem. (2019)

Medicare-for-all explained: insurance deductibles for work plans rising. Company insurance is deeply entrenched and poses a big challenge to Medic... (2018)

There's been a lot of talk (including on this show!) about the many kinds of innovations and technologies changing healthcare delivery for clinicia... (2021)