- Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
- Healthcare Isn't A Free Market, It's A Giant Economic Scam
- Horror Care: How Private Health Care Is Shortening Our Lives—"[T]he medical industry has spent $5.36 billion on lobbying in the past 15 years, compared to $1.53 billion spent by the defense/aerospace industry and $1.3 billion spent by oil and gas interests."
- Steven Brill's 26,000-word health-care story, in one sentence
- An average ER visit costs more than an average month's rent
- Video: The Cost of a Medical Test
- Hospital charges uninsured cancer patient $1.50 for a 1.5 cent Tylenol
- The High Price of Doctors: A Disease of Regulation
- Shocked, Shocked, Over Hospital Bills—"It should not be impossible to restrain hospitals from charging so much, but few attempts have been made, an economist writes." NYT
- Family fights $474k hospital bill
- Big pharma's excuses for the monopolies on medicine won't wash—"Millions in Africa died of Aids, while western governments and drug companies blocked access to low-cost medication."
- Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability
- Tamiflu: Myth and Misconception—"The only people helped by the proven-to-be-ineffective drug are its manufacturers."
- India patents office rejects Bayer appeal against cheaper version of its cancer drug
- Cheaper Generic Drugs Help Lower Health Costs, But Big Pharma Works To Keep Prices High
- Ryan's Freudian Slip: 'We are Not Going to Give Up on Destroying the Health Care System'
- Why Tea Party Gov. Rick Scott Flip-Flopped on Obamacare
- Chris Christie's Obamacare move risky for 2016 election
- Americans 'are sicker and die younger' than people in other wealthy nations—"Damning official report on US health finds death and disease taking huge toll on population, particularly among young (NYT)."
- Doctors Who Don't Speak Out—"While experts say that doctors have an ethical obligation to warn their peers about bad drugs or medical devices, they don't always do so." NYT
- I thought I understood health care. Then my Mom went into the ICU.
- On Purposely Getting Arrested, to Get Life-Saving Surgery
- Andrew Weil: U.S. manages disease, not health—"I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system -- one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy."
- 'Totally drug-resistant' tuberculosis spreads in South Africa as researchers warn global outbreak would be 'untreatable'
- Antibiotics blamed for 'nightmare bacteria'
- Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' - medical chief
- HIV Infection Is Most Concentrated In The South, Where Students Don't Learn About It In School
- Mississippi doctors "functionally cure" a toddler of HIV
- Yep, Sugar (Not Other Stuff) Appears to Cause Diabetes
- Polio must be eradicated. It's a crippling disease but it can be beaten, as I should know
- Scientists discover malaria's 'Achilles heel'
