Elisabeth Rosenthal

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Ouch. That ‘Free’ Annual Checkup Might Cost You. Here’s Why.

The designers of the Affordable Care Act might have assumed that they spelled out with sufficient clarity that millions of Americans would no longer have to pay for certain types of preventive care. But they didn’t reckon with America’s ever-creative medical billing juggernaut.

A Peek at Big Pharma’s Playbook That Leaves Many Americans Unable to Afford Their Drugs

Brand-name drug prices in the U.S. — more than three times the price in other developed countries — are related neither to the amount of research and development required to bring them to market nor their therapeutic value, recent research shows. Have drugmakers overplayed their hand?

Your Exorbitant Medical Bill, Brought to You by the Latest Hospital Merger

After decades of unchecked mergers, health care is the land of giants, with huge medical systems monopolizing care in many cities, states, and even whole regions of the country. This decreases patient choice, impedes innovation, erodes quality of care, and raises prices. And federal regulators have been slow to act.