The Cost of Doing Nothing About Health Reform

Reed Abelson's article in today's New York Times should be required reading for all those who want to put the kibosh on the reform ...

Guest Contribution by Jan Werner

By Jan Werner (With Jan's permission, I am reprinting a commentary originally distributed to the American Association for Public Opinion...

Medical Students, Medical Ethics, and Health Reform

It's almost two weeks since I did my last blog post. Even when I was in India for a month last year I wrote more than that. My teaching ...

Jon Cohen and Frank Newport offer synopses of where public opinion currently stands on health care reform (via Pollster.com ). UPDATE: An...

Pre-Summit Round-Up

With President Obama preparing to release a new version of the health care reform plan in advance of Thursday's bipartisan summit on th...

Murder conviction and Malpractice Accusation in Massachusetts

This week a Massachusetts jury found Carolyn Riley guilty of second degree murder for causing the death of her four year old daughter Rebecc...

Justice and Ethics Prevail in Texas Whistleblower Case

It only took the jury one hour and a single vote to to acquit nurse Anne Mitchell, against whom a vengeful sheriff and prosecutor had brough...

Comprehensiveness and Complexity (ABC/Post Poll)

In the aftermath of Republican Scott Brown's win in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate and with support in national publ...

Tiered Physician Networks - a Promising Development in Ethics and Economics

The most recent issue of the American Journal of Managed care features an interesting article on "Consumer Experience with a Tiered Phy...

Texas Threatens Whistleblower Nurse with Jail

Tomorrow nurse Anne Mitchell, formerly compliance officer at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in West Texas, will go on trial for "misu...

Medical Tourism and Quality Measures

Medical Tourism or the exportation of health care services and procedures is in full swing in the United States consumer driven health care ...

Nate Silver takes a look at open-ended responses from a Gallup survey to assess the degree to which opposition to health care reform might ...

PolitiFact reviews polling data to gauge the accuracy of U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) claim that a "majority...