The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More

A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast...

Healthcare Futurist: Supreme Court Can’t Stop Healthcare Reform

[Press Release] Sausalito, Calif., June 20, 2012 — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building that the Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But a healthcare futurist argues that...

On Beyond Healthcare: Save the Country with Preventive Care

We are entering the season of presidential politics, of bunting and cries of “What about the children?” and star-spangled appeals to full-throated patriotism. So here’s mine: Do you count yourself a patriot? Do you care about the future of this country? (And while we...