If there were a way to save $207.4 million, avoid 30,000 unnecessary hospitalizations and more than 2,000 premature deaths, we’d jump at it, right?
That’s what Missouri would gain if its health system performed as well as the systems in Vermont,…

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was on a roll.
“Nothing makes me more angry … than the suggestion that America does not already have the finest health care in the world,” the Senate minority leader said Monday at a forum in…

Imagine buying a $7,500 car blind — without knowing how it compares to other models, how well it’s made or how fuel-efficient it is. Most of us simply wouldn’t do it.
But that’s exactly how we buy health care. Americans spent…

Rush Limbaugh: Just say know

Conservative commentators — Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck among them — have been railing against a provision in the federal stimulus bill that funds research into how well medical treatments actually work and distributes…

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With health care near the top of its agenda, the administration of President-elect Barack Obama is planning to hold a series of town hall meetings across the country in coming weeks. The purpose is to solicit ideas and…