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A Double Whammy for Smokers: An ObamaCare Tax

The Affordable Care Act…allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies…

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Malpractice

he average physician spends almost 11 percent of his or her career…

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The Uneasy Case Against Free Market Health Care

If you are new to health policy, here’s a warning. You won’t…

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Free Market Prescription Drugs

An apparent feud between two black market pharmacies has shed light on…

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Is Private Health Insurance More Costly Than Public Health Insurance? Five Principles

Uwe Reinhardt had a post the other day at The New York…

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Rating Doctors May Be Hazardous to Your Health

What’s happening: What’s happening:Press Ganey…has become a hated target of hospital physicians,…

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Myths about Colds

Colds are caused by cold weather.You can catch a cold by going…

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Why Are So Many People Disabled?

There are now 8.8 million workers receiving disability payments from Social Security.…

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“Never Events” Happen

Surgeons make mistakes more than 4,000 times a year in the U.S.,…

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Proposal: Abolish Medical Practice Statutes

Medical practice statutes are state laws that dictate who can and who…

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