News and Opinion - 2019
- – Stanford Medicine
Treating blood clots in the brain goes from fast to faster to fastest
New protocol slashes door-to-needle time for stroke patients to receive life-changing treatment.
- – The New York Times
That Beloved Hospital? It’s Driving Up Health Care Costs
It’s easy to criticize pharmaceutical and insurance companies. But we spend much more on hospitals.
- – NEJM Catalyst
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- – Health Care Trends and Implications
Adopting the Attributes of High-Value Hospitals, FutureScan
This is the latest in a series of publications for health care leaders that the American Hospital Association’s Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD) in collaboration with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) has published annually since 1999.
- – Washington Post
The Health 202: Medicare-for-all opponents claim hospitals would shutter. But it depends where they're located.
Rural hospitals are already struggling. Medicare-for-all could make it worse.
- – Health Affairs-Blog
Resolving Surprised Medical Bills
Like too much of health care reform, this legislative solution might make the problem worse. In fact, as we explain, it could result in higher health insurance premiums for all of us.
- – The New York Times
‘Medicare for All’ Could Kill Two Million Jobs, and That’s O.K.
Reform has a cost. But the point of a health care system is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy.
- – San Francisco Chronicle
Prescription drugs cost 14% more in SF than national average
Prescription drugs cost 14% more in San Francisco compared with the national average — making it the second most expensive U.S. city in which to buy prescription medications. But researchers aren’t sure why.