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VA Boondoggle to Cost $1.73 Billion

A new VA hospital is behind schedule and five times over budget—to the tune of $1.73 billion. How’s that for efficient, government-run health care?

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Supreme Court Denies Rentier Dentists

A new Supreme Court cases puts paid to efforts by a state dental board to monopolize teeth whitening services. It’s about time the FTC started reining in health care monopolies.

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Federal “Cost Control” Helped Create Our Hospital Crisis

Hospital consolidation makes health care more expensive—and we have a botched attempt at cost control partly to thank for it.

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How to Make Health Care Cheaper

Cheaper technologies, price transparency reforms, support for better care delivery, and empowering nurse practitioners: these together could bring down costs for the health care consumer.

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When Health Insurance Doesn’t Mean Coverage

Narrow networks and skimpy plans mean some insured Americans don’t really have coverage that works for them. Whatever your preferred policy, the ACA status quo is not working.

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Medical Testing Run Amok in Florida

Various kinds of health care tests occur far more in Florida than in many other states. Unless consumers get better at consuming care well, health care spending won’t come down.

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Vox’s Tortured Price Control Logic

Price transparency is key to fixing U.S. health care, and we should take our cue from solutions to opacity that are already emerging.

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Is U.S. Health Care Making a Miraculous Recovery?

A new study finds that health care is working better for many Americas, but other polls disagree. Either way, things don’t look terribly rosy overall.

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Hard Times For The Medicaid Expansion

The Medicaid expansion isn’t going as smoothly as supporters expected. As long as health care costs stay high, the ACA will be targeted.

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The “Coverage Gap” Is Even Worse Than You Think

For some, the “coverage gap” is one of our most pressing health care problems. But it all comes down to cost.

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