Moving a parent or sibling into a nursing home is emotionally and financially difficult. Keeping them there may be getting even harder.
The Wall Street Journal reports that increasing numbers of frail and sick residents are being forced out of…

By a very wide margin, Americans believe that the nation’s health care system requires a major overhaul, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund. An overwhelming 82 percent of respondents said the system should be fundamentally changed or…

Amid the hoopla of the presidential campaign last week, as candidates were delivering their hopeful economic messages, a dull missive from the government’s bean counters landed with a thud:
The White House Budget Office said it expects next year’s federal deficit…

Congress did the right thing last week by overriding a presidential veto of some modest Medicare reforms. But as welcome as it was, the quick and decisive response highlights a long-standing inequity in federal spending.
The measure will prevent a…

In Spain, Pamplona has its annual running of the bulls. Sweetwater, Tex., has its Rattlesnake Roundup. And Washington has the annual farce of the physicians’ Medicare fee cuts.
Not familiar with that last one? It plays out when an increase in…

The world’s premier drug regulator, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has an almost impossible job. Before a new drug can go on the market, the FDA must assess its safety, and its only guide are studies involving at most…