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Study: Canada Points Way To Saving Medicare
CIA map of Canada (Wikimedia Commons) Plenty of rhetoric this election season has warned that Medicare, the government health coverage for seniors, will go bankrupt in a few years. (CNN does an...
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Health Care And The Fiscal Cliff Deal
Harvard professor and author John E. McDonough I don’t know about you but I never want to hear about the “fiscal cliff” ever again. But for true wonks who wish to close the loop on what actually...
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Medicare, You Can Do Better (Or Why You Need A Translator For This Post)
By Martha Bebinger WBUR I wrote to Medicare a while back, asking for a price. I know nothing is simple in the world of health care costs, but I just needed one number, that’s all. One number that...
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Debunking ‘The Myth Of The Greedy Geezer’
[Listen on SoundCloud] You know the greedy geezer, don’t you? That resource-sucking, Social Security-inflating senior who’s being blamed by some these days for the federal budget deficit now and in...
View ArticleWhat Mass. Hospitals Charge Vs. What They Get Paid
[Google Map] Some people play fantasy football, some knit. We here at CommonHealth sometimes like to play with health care data — most recently, a trove of Medicare numbers released last week on how...
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Boston’s Mostly Good Results In Health Savings Experiment
Boston is a major player in a critical national health care test: Can focusing on prevention, and paying doctors based on the quality of their care, actually save money? After the first year of this...
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Report: In Mass. Health Care, System Skewed So Rich Get Richer
A report released today by the Healthcare Equality and Affordability League (H.E.A.L.) — a partnership between the for-profit Steward Health Care System and the union, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare...
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Deluge Of Medicare Data On Docs: Is It Useful? Well, It’s A Step…
Yay, transparency. It’s surely a good thing that Medicare has been releasing gushes of data lately on its health-care payments, most recently on payments to individual physicians. And it’s surely...
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Yes, Medicare Will Cover Lung Cancer Scans For Longtime Smokers, But…
(Source: Wikimedia Commons) …to finish the sentence in the headline: But it was not the simple no-brainer that you might think. Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer of all, causing 160,000 American...
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U.S. Health Care Is Less Private, More ‘Socialist’ Than You Might Think
The extent of the government’s role in health care has become a key issue in the Democratic presidential primary. Here, candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are seen in a debate on Jan. 17....
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