There is broad bipartisan agreement that the health-care system in the United States is broken. Our country just endured the longest government shutdown ever, and it was largely over health care.

Here’s a piece of Republican rhetoric that used to be ubiquitous but that you never hear anymore: America has the best health-care system in the world. Republican politicians liked this line because ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Monday that President Trump could “literally collapse” the American health care system as a partisan battle rages amid the government shutdown. “I don’t mean to be ...

Washington keeps arguing over who should pay the bill while ignoring what’s driving costs in the first place — a policy failure decades in the making.

Harry Truman's plan would have covered medical, hospital and nursing care for everyone, and created a federal health insurance agency to pay the costs of care.

Health care costs are shared throughout the system. If large numbers of Texans lose coverage, they will start relying on ERs for care, and those costs will be passed on and worsen the affordability ...

In the U.S., we have two clear problems with healthcare: high costs and poor health outcomes. We spend around $5 trillion each year on healthcare—twice as much per person as other large, wealthy ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

Most health care experts agree the reason our system is so unaffordable is because of all of the waste and unnecessary care - up to 30% of what we spend. I will suggest that it will take the genius of ...

The School of Law will host a lecture with Elisabeth Rosenthal, an award-winning journalist, published author and former health care professional, Monday, March 6, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the School ...

In July 1988, the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea exploded into fire. A worker on the rig, Andy Mochan, had to make a choice: stay and certainly die, or jump off the platform and probably die ...