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Julie and Gene loved each other enough to do whatever it took to get treatment for Julie's cancer - even if it meant a divorce. Read more »

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The wailing and nashing of teeth over the impending demise of private health insurance has already started...even though no one is proposing to do such a thing. So why the hysteria? Read more »

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The latest dreaded unemployment numbers came in last week – another 500,000-plus lost jobs in December. And as many of those former workers are sadly discovering, their hoped-for safety net of COBRA health insurance is just too expensive to afford. Read more »

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“We will be guided by evidence and effectiveness, not ideology.” That one statement by former Sen. Tom Daschle stood out today during his confirmation hearings to head our nation’s health system. The words sum up the immense challenge – and ideal – of health care reform. Get rid of the politics and bickering, the marketing and hype, the TV commercials with their luminescent butterflies, and let’s use science and the evidence to find out what works best in health care. Read more »

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On Monday, the latest study published in Health Affairs on what we're spending on our health found that health-care spending in America actually slowed -- growing in 2007 at its lowest rate in a decade. Good news. Read more »

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