RealClearHealth April 1, 2016 Archives

RealClearHealth AM Update

Are Some Medicines Too Cheap?

Ben Hirschler Reuters

Hospitals Brace for New Medicare Payment Rules

Melinda Beck WSJ

Obama Tells Holdouts to Expand Medicaid

Mary Ellen McIntire Morn Con

"Real Data" Needed on Mental Health Coverage

Arielle Becker CT Mirror

Prudential Pulls a Fast One on LTC Policyholders

David Lazarus LAT

Industrial Science Hunts for Nursing Home Fraud

Ina Jaffe NPR

Task Forces to Rein in Nursing Home Abuses

Lisa Schencker MH

Schools Protest Subpoenas for Researchers' Names

Peter Sullivan Hill

Report Shows Theranos Tests Plagued by Problems

Andrew Pollack NYT

States and CDC Respond to Fentanyl Deaths

Christine Vestal Stateline

CDC: U.S. Autism Rate Unchanged

Robert Preidt HealthDay

States Begin to Collect Data on Drug-Dependent Babies

Ben Allen KHN

Sensitivity for Transgender Patients

Andrea K. McDaniels Baltimore Sun

Did Obamacare Really Bend the Cost Curve?

Chris Conover Apothecary

"Choosing Wisely" & the Therapeutic Illusion

David Casarett NEJM

RealClearHealth PM Update

How a Small Town Lost Its Hospital

Alexa Garcia-Ditta Texas Observer

A Health Hack Wake-Up Call

Niam Yaraghi U.S. News & World Report

Is Ransomware a Data Breach Under HIPAA?

Dan Munro Forbes

CDC Employee Infected With Salmonella

Debra Goldschmidt CNN

Blood Test May Help Diagnose Concussions

Robert Preidt HealthDay

Soda Consumption Hit a 30-Year Low in 2015

Julia Belluz Vox

A Fatter, Healthier But More Unequal World

George Davey Smith Lancet

The "Almost Poor" Don't Want Obamacare

Yevgeniy Feyman Examiner

RealClearHealth Research and Analysis

Only 33% of Exchange Enrollees Kept Same Plan

Avalere Health

Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain

Nora D. Volkow & A. Thomas McLellan NEJM