Building an American Insurance Bazaar
A 'bazaar' approach to health plans might be the least bizarre way to maintain America's accidental tradition of medical insurance.
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Making a Plan and Not Sticking To It
When sick people change health plans, it can muck up the insurance market. A new paper suggests ways for fixing it.
Fainting in America
Kirk Nielsen takes the pulse of the nation's emergency health care costs by passing out and getting gouged.
Dying for Coverage: Charting the Insurance Gap
A recent study shows that life spans are decreasing for some regions in America where reduced access to Medicaid is common.
A Prognosis on Mandates and Guarantees
"Experiments" in eight states provide pointers on how America might provide guaranteed health insurance.
Software Helps Insurers Profit from Denials
New York's attorney general investigates possible fraud in an industry built on denying care, and two U.S. representatives want Medicare to have no part in it.