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People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Author Archive: Merrill Goozner
Survey: Consumers to face higher health care costs
Employees will be experiencing higher co-pays and deductibles in their health insurance next year as employers continue to reduce their overall coverage to deal with rapidly rising costs.
In Oregon, pay-for-results health insurance gets a shot
They’re giving pay-for-results plans a shot in Oregon: Make people pay more for high-priced medical interventions that may be unnecessary or simply don’t deliver results.
Health care reform: Prove it works and we’ll pay
With reference pricing, to charge Medicare extra companies get three years to show that a new, costly treatment is better than the old one.
Breast Cancer: How politics is driving up costs
FDA shouldn’t cave to pressure and allow Genentech to keep advanced metastatic breast cancer on the Avastin label, argues Merrill Goozner.
Bad Medicine: The Real Cost of a Dangerous Drug
Clinical trials that compare effectiveness–and safety–of new drugs with old drugs would not only save lives, but money as well, says Merrill Goozner
Heart Disease: Why costs rise as prevention improves
The number of people hospitalized or killed by serious heart attacks each year is down–but the cost of treating people hospitalized with heart disease is up.
Health Care and the Economy
“The growing government role in providing health care—in the U.S. as elsewhere around the world—is the single largest contributor to an emerging global fiscal crisis.”
View: Will health reform work?
Will reform pay for itself? The answer will come slowly over the next decade as the reforms gradually go into effect.
How high-tech medicine drives up health costs
The U.S. health technology can work miracles; but those miracles can come at a stiff price.
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