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Tackling the health care affordability crisis

This diverse group of #Lown2018 panelists explain how making health care more affordable will take pressure from all sides.

A closer look at the hundreds of millions that pharma spends on payments to physicians.

Reducing unnecessary care is the not the solution to our country’s health care cost problem. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.

How can we reduce low-value care without talking to patients about what value and cost mean to them?

Dr. Deepa Ramadurai tells the story that inspired her winning clinical vignette!

Do physicians and patients have to accept substandard electronic health records? These doctors say No!

The health care cost squeeze has finally reached the boiling point, as teachers in West Virginia protest unaffordable health insurance rates.

If hospitals can no longer justify giving patients so many stents, what will they do to make up the difference in revenue?

The most disruptive health care innovation isn’t new technology, it’s high-value care, Dr. Martin Makary writes in a recent op-ed.

Given the immense amount of money in hospitals, how can we move from a hospital-centric system to a health-centric one?