Healthcare Economics

• Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers? By Paula Span, The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2026 
•  Health at a Glance 2025 OECD Indicators OECD, November 13, 2025
• A solution to the doctor shortage could be just down the street By Tim Frost, The Washington Post, February 11, 2026
• If not for this one industry, the U.S. labor market would look a lot worse: Five charts that show health care’s economic dominance. By Abha Bhattarai and  Luis Melgar, The Washington Post, February 14, 2025
• Physician Assistants Want a New Name and More Power. Not Everyone Is Happy. By Ben Blatt and Teddy Rosenbluth, The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2026
• A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ By Ross Douthat, The New York Times, January 29, 2026. [Interview of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director.]
• New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities By Akilah Johnson, The Washington Post, January 26, 2026
• Scientists are inventing treatments for devastating diseases. There’s just one problem. By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post, January 11, 2026
• Myanmar’s Civil War Pushes Infectious Disease Over Its Borders By Verena Hölzl with Visuals by Lauren DeCicca, The New York Times, Dec. 26, 2025America desperately needs new health care ideas. Here are five. By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Washington Post, December 2, 2025
• Why health savings accounts aren’t the fix Republicans hope for By Paige Winfield Cunningham, The Washington Post, November 25, 2025
• These Hospitals Figured Out How to Slash C-Section Rates By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro, The New York Times, Nov. 24, 2025
• An innovative approach to expanding health coverage is gaining steam By Patrice Onwuka, The Washington Post, November 24, 2025
• The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care By Paul Krugman, Substack, November 13, 2025
• The International Flow of Doctors and Nurses By Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist, November 11, 2025
• Make Medical School Three Years By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Emily K. Kim, and Vitor B. de Souza, The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2025
• Why Is Healthcare Expensive? By Dean Baker, Dean Baker’s Beat the Press (blog), Nov 3, 2025  
• Trump Administration Seeks to Return Medical Debt to Credit Reports By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, October 31, 2025
• 650. The Doctor Won’t See You Now Freakonomics Radio Network, YouTube, October 24, 2025
• Make America Healthy Again: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight, YouTube, August 18, 2025
• The Baumol Effect - Why Services Get More Expensive (And Why That's Actually Good) The Marginal Revolution Podcast, YouTube, October 21, 2025
• Here’s who pays when undocumented immigrants get health care in America By David Ovalle, The Washington Post, October 20, 2025.
• ‘Stethoscopes in the sand’: Why I’m rethinking AI’s role in medicine By Leana S. Wen, The Washington Post, October 8, 2025.
• How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls By Craig Whitlock, Lisa Rein and Caitlyn Gilbert, The Washington Post, October 6, 2025
• You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories By Alexander Stockton and Derek Beres, The New York Times, September 9, 2025
• Healthcare Occupations: Characteristics of the Employed By Sean Smith and Andrew Blank, Spotlight on Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2023 
• A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times, August 18, 2025
• Refocusing US Health Care Spending By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, July 31, 2025
• How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy By Lydia DePillis and Christine Zhang, The New York Times, July 3, 2025
• How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers By Steven H. Woolf, The New York Times, June 30, 2025
• Payer-provider vertical integration: Trends, tradeoffs, and policy options Brookings Institution, YouTube, May 19, 2025
• Retirees, Get Ready to Need Long-Term Care. Here’s What to Know. By Mark Miller, The New York Times, May 24, 2025
• Is There Really a Chronic Disease Epidemic? It’s Complicated. By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times, May 22, 2025
• 5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information By Teddy Rosenbluth, The New York Times, April 28, 2025 
• How ‘Health Freedom’ Became a Winning Rallying Cry By Kate Morgan, The New York Times, December 31, 2024 [For decades, vaccine skeptics were a vocal protest movement. Now, they find themselves much closer to power.]
• America’s Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis Rates By Daniel Bergner, The New York Times Magazine, December 4, 2024 
• What’s Behind the Remarkable Drop in U.S. Overdose Deaths By Jan Hoffman and Noah Weiland, The New York Times, November 21, 2024
  
• The Campaign Issue That Isn’t: Health Care Reform By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Sep. 14, 2024
• 2024 Sargan Lecture: Health Inequality and Health Types By Mariacristina De Nardi, Royal Economic Society, YouTube, May 23, 2024
  
• South Korean Doctors Walk Out, Protesting Plan to Increase Their Ranks By Jin Yu Young, The New York Times, February 19, 2024
  
• Primary care saves lives. Here’s why it’s failing Americans. By Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post, October 17, 2023
  
• How Do We Fix the Scandal That Is American Health Care? By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, August 16, 2023
  
• How much money do doctors really make and why is it such a lot? By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, August 4, 2023
  
• Financiers bought up anesthesia practices, then raised prices By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, June 29, 2023
  
• The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors By Eyal Press, The New York Times Magazine, June 16, 2023 [The corporatization of health care has changed the practice of medicine, causing many physicians to feel alienated from their work.]
  
• Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready. By Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post, March 18, 2023 
• How Being Sick Changed My Health Care Views By Ross Douthat, The New York Times, January 19, 2022
  
• Why Cash Is Better Than Expanded Health Insurance for the Poor  By Amy Finkelstein, The New York Times, May 13, 2021
  
• Vaccines
  
• Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines  By Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2015 [Terrific heat maps showing the impact of vaccines, pre-COVID.]
•  Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties By Beth Mole, Ars Technica, February 7, 2025
• Polio outbreak spreads in Pakistan as militants target vaccination teams By Haq Nawaz Khan, Rick Noack and Shaiq Hussain, The Washington Post, January 29, 2025
  
• RFK Jr. disparaged vaccines dozens of times in recent years and made baseless claims on race By Lauren Weber and Caitlin Gilbert, The Washington Post, January 29, 2025
• Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames Kennedy for Measles Deaths in Samoa By Elizabeth Williamson, The New York Times, January 28, 2025
  
• 13 Questions Kennedy Must Answer, According to Experts By New York Times Opinion, The New York Times, January 28, 2025 
• Lifestyle
• Does taxing sugary drinks result in better health outcomes? What some cities have found PBS NewsHour, YouTube, May 24, 2025
• Diabetes and Heart Disease Rise Alongside Sugary Drink Consumption By Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, January 6, 2025
  
• Pharmaceutical Business
• How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research By Walt Bogdanich, Carson Kessler and Jeremy Singer-Vine, The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2025
•  The Lawyer Fighting Big Pharma in the Opioid War  POV, PBS YouTube, September 22, 2025
• I Run the F.D.A. Pharma Ads Are Hurting Americans. By Marty Makary, The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2025
• Targeting Hims & Hers, F.D.A. Takes on a New Type of Drug Advertiser By Christina Jewett, Rebecca Robbins and Dani Blum, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2025
•  Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids By Chris Hamby, The New York Times, December 17, 2024
• Insurance
• His deductible is $4,000. To control his diabetes, he’s had to cut corners. By Charlotte Huff, The Washington Post, December 7, 2025
• A doctor directed her to a clinic for a tick bite. Her insurer refused to pay. By Lauren Sausser, The Washington Post, November 16, 2025
• The government is shut down over health care. But does insurance save lives? By Todd C. Frankel, The Washington Post, November 9, 2025
• Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance. By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, October 22, 2025
• A Message From Your Doctor About the Prior Authorization Process By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, September 14, 2025
• Hopkins Medicine ends talks with UnitedHealthcare, leaving patients scrambling By Jenna Portnoy, The Washington Post, September 16, 2025
• Health Insurers Are Becoming Chronically Uninvestable By David Wainer, The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2025
• Loss of insurance from GOP bill could mean more than 100,000 deaths By Natasha Sarin, The Washington Post, June 9, 2025
• Why Patients Are Being Forced to Switch to a 2nd-Choice Obesity Drug By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson, The New York Times, May 11, 2025
• RFK Jr.: If you eat doughnuts or smoke, should society pay for your health care? By Lauren Weber, The Washington Post, April 10, 2025
• How US citizens are affected by a profit-driven healthcare system | The Stream Al Jazeera English, YouTube, February 14, 2025
• Health Insurers Deny 850 Million Claims a Year. The Few Who Appeal Often Win. By Julie Wernau, The Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2025
• Insurance is what makes U.S. health-care prices so high By David Goldhill, The Washington Post, December 26, 2024
  
• How American Health Insurance Got So Infuriating By David Wainer, The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2024
  
• Health Insurance is a Racket: What value do these companies add, really? By Paul Krugman, Krugman Wonks Out (Substack), Dec 18, 2024
  
• I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit. By Wendell Potter, The New York Times, December 18, 2024 
• UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It. By Andrew Witty, The New York Times, December 13, 2024
  
• The Issues with Health Insurance Companies, Explained by Doctors The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2024 [Focuses on pre-authorization.] 
  
• Most Americans Say They Have Good Health Insurance, Polls Show By Kaleigh Rogers, The New York Times, December 13, 2024 
• ‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care Video by Alexander Stockton, The New York Times, March 14, 2024
  
• Drug Patents
• How a Drug Maker Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy By Rebecca Robbins and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, July 22, 2023 [Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.]
• Drug Prices
• Donald Trump’s cure for drug prices is worse than the disease The Economist, October 2, 2025
• Video 
• Does big pharma gouge Americans? The Economist, October 2, 2025
• Donald Trump is waging war on sky-high drug prices. Can he win? The Economist, September 28, 2025
• Trump Announces Deal With Pfizer to Sell Drugs to Medicaid at European Prices By Rebecca Robbins and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, September 30, 2025
• Where Your Medicines Are Made By Rebecca Robbins and Jonathan Corum, The New York Times, August 23, 2025
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders: My State Is Taking On the Middlemen Who Inflate Drug Prices By Sarah Huckabee Sanders, The New York Times, June 10, 2025
• How America Built the World’s Most Successful Market for Generic Drugs  by  Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), May 30, 2025
• The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson, The New York Times, June 21, 2024 [This is the first article in a series about how pharmacy benefit managers prioritize their interests, often at the expense of patients, employers and taxpayers.]
  
• Why Are US Drug Prices So High? The Human Action Podcast, MisesMedia, YouTube, May 19, 2025 [Interview of Alex Tabarrok]
• The real cost of Trump’s cheap drug promise By Eduardo Porter, The Washington Post, May 20, 2025
• The Risks of Adopting Foreign Price Controls for Drugs  By Kristian Stout, Truth on the Market, May 09, 2025
• the middlemen: The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business By Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2024
  
• As drug middlemen influence grows, independent pharmacies face fresh challenges By McKenzie Beard, The Washington Post, October 11, 2024
  
• Senators press Novo Nordisk CEO on why Ozempic and Wegovy cost less abroad By Daniel Gilbert, The Washington Post, September 24, 2024 
• The US Has Low Prices for Most Prescription Drugs By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), September 24, 2025
• Our Reporter on How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work  By Rebecca Robbins, Claire Hogan, Christina Shaman and James Surdam, June 21, 2024 
• Six Reasons Drug Prices Are So High in the U.S. By Rebecca Robbins and Christina Jewett, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2024 [Research shows prices in the United States are nearly double those in other well-off countries.]
  
• ‘Miracle’ Cystic Fibrosis Drug Kept Out of Reach in Developing Countries By Stephanie Nolen and Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times, February 7, 2023 
• Drug Prices by Committee: One Way Biden Could Lower Costs By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, Feb. 12, 2021
  
• An Indian Drug Mogul Says Americans Will Pay Too Much for the Covid Vaccine—and Wants to Change That By SARAH WHEATON, Politico Magazine, 7/19/2020
  
• Generic Drug Maker Admits to Fixing Prices for Cholesterol Medication  By Katie Benner, The New York Times, May 7, 2020
• Why Is Medicine So Expensive? By Daniel J. Kevles, The New York Review of Books, February 21, 2019. [The system of prescription drug pricing is a patchwork product of history, vulnerable to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry.]
  
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• Medicaid
• Medicaid: What It Has Become By Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist (blog), December 5, 2025
• Coverage Isn’t Care: An Abundance Agenda for Medicaid By  Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Layton, Aspen Economic Strategy Group, December 4, 2025
• Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Could Hamper Efforts to House the Homeless By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, September 17, 2025
• Expanding Medicaid Hasn’t Improved U.S. Healthcare By  John C. Goodman, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 25, 2025 [The coverage isn’t great, most enrollees don’t need it anyway, and they can easily re-enroll if they do.]
• I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live. By Rachel Roth Aldhizer, The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2025
• We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos. By Kevin De Liban and Trevor Hawkins, The New York Times, June 8, 2025
• As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, May 16, 2025 [The most extensive research on Medicaid coverage to date found that it reduced the risk of death by 21 percent.]
• The Effects of Medicaid Expansions on Mortality of Low-Income Adults No-Spin Evidence Review, June 10, 2025
• People with disabilities explain how Medicaid cuts could impact their lives PBS NewsHour, YouTube, April 28, 2025
• The Three States That Are Especially Stuck if Congress Cuts Medicaid By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, April 6, 2025
• Medicaid Insures Millions of Americans. How the Health Program Works, in Charts. By Anna Wilde Mathews and Paul Overberg with Graphics by Elizaveta Galkina, The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2025
• The Big Secret About Medicaid: It’s a Middle-Class Benefit By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, March 21, 2025
• What to Know About Medicaid By Abby Goodnough, The New York Times, February 26, 2025
• Medicaid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight, YouTube, April 18, 2024
• Why the South has such low credit scores By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, February 17, 2023
  
• Medicaid Enrollment Surpassed 80 Million, a Record, During the Pandemic By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, June 22, 2021
  
• Medicare
• Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight, YouTube, October 27, 2025
• Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth, The New York Times, August 28, 2025
• Rep. AOC Breaks Down Medicare Advantage RepAOC, YouTube, May 20, 2025
• Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut By Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, April 11, 2025
• Bridging the Medicare Cost Gap: Knowing Your Options By Mark Miller, The New York Times, February 15, 2025
• Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated By Christopher Weaver, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews and Mark Maremont, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2024 [Questionable diagnoses of HIV and other maladies triggered extra Medicare Advantage payments; ‘It’s anatomically impossible’]
• Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race: Forty years of gaming the system By Paul Krugman, paulkrugman.substack.com, January 7, 2025
  
• Medicare Advantage Myth-Busting By Brandon Novick, March 14, CEPR, 2024
  
• A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why. By Margot Sanger-Katz, Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, The New York Times, Sep. 4, 2023
  
• That $56,000 Drug? Blame Medicare. By Amy Finkelstein, The New York Times, August 20, 2021
  
• New Drug Could Cost the Government as Much as It Spends on NASA By Josh Katz, Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, June 22, 2021
  
• The Attack on an Alzheimer’s Drug By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2021
  
• When Medicare Choices Get ‘Pretty Crazy,’ Many Seniors Avert Their Eyes By Mark Miller, The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2020
• Medicare for All
• Why Single-Payer Health Insurance Fails: In search of supposed cost savings By Nicholas Decker and KingoftheCoast, Homo Economicus, Substack, Aug 25, 2025
• We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It? By Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, The New York Times, July 18, 2023
  
• The Basics of ‘Medicare for All’  By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Feb. 26, 2020
• Would Your Wages Rise Under ‘Medicare for All’?  By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, Feb. 3, 2020
• Open letter from top economists: Medicare for All would lead to massive savings for most Americans and slash waste in healthcare  By Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Business Insider, Mar. 10, 2020
• Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Roads to Universal Health Care  By Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, March 10, 2020
• Single-Payer Health Care Did Not Fail in Vermont By Lee Russ, The Progressive, March 4, 2020 
• Medicare for All: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight, YouTube, February 17, 2020
• Why Vermont’s single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it By Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post, April 29, 2019
• Why Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Health Care Plan Failed In Vermont All Things Considered, NPR, September 13, 2017
  
• Comparing National Healthcare Systems
  
• How Does the Quality of the U.S. Health System Compare to Other Countries? By Imani Telesford, Emma Wager, and Cynthia Cox, KFF, October 6, 2025
• In Austria, Government Health Care Can Look a Bit Like a Spa By Saskia Solomon, The New York Times, August 31, 2025
• Australia's universal healthcare is crumbling. Can it be saved? By Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News, April 26, 2025
• Quality Care in Perspective: Children’s Hospitals By Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Insight, American Action Forum, March 4, 2025
• See Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems
• Random Critical Analysis blog with articles on healthcare controversies
  
• U.S. ranks last in health care compared with nine other high-income countries, report finds By Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, September 19, 2024 
• Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System By David Blumenthal, Evan D. Gumas, Arnav Shah, Munira Z. Gunja, Reginald D. Williams II, The Commonwealth Fund, September 19, 2024
• What experts say about who has the world's best health-care system | Opinion The Washington Post, YouTube, June 17, 2021
  
• Politicians Ruined a Brilliant Example of Universal Health Care By Adam Westbrook, NYT Opinion, YouTube, December 7, 2023
  
• A tale of two sisters, two countries and their health systems By Frances Stead Sellers and Catarina Fernandes Martins, The Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2023  
  
• A National Treasure, Tarnished: Can Britain Fix Its Health Service? By Mark Landler, The New York Times, July 16, 2023
  
• I Studied Five Countries’ Health Care Systems. We Need to Get More Creative With Ours. By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, June 13, 2023
  
• ‘Why Is It So Expensive?’  Video by Chai Dingari, Adam Westbrook and Brendan Miller, The New York Times, May 15, 2021 [See also https://youtu.be/EBklyksgbco.]
• What Does U.S. Health Care Look Like Abroad? The New York Times, YouTube, April 28, 2021
•  Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care in the United States Compared to 10 Other Developed Countries By Roosa Tikkanen, Munira Z. Gunja, Molly FitzGerald, and Laurie Zephyrin, The Commonwealth Fund, November 18, 2020
  
• Where Health Care Is a Human Right By Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2020. [How does the single-payer system work in Canada, and does it need reform?]
• Health Care: The Best and the Rest By David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, October 22, 2020 [Ezekiel Emanuel’s new book, Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?, makes a comparative study of eleven of the world’s health care systems. Who are the winners and losers?]
• Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? A Conversation with Zeke Emanuel The Aspen Institute, YouTube, June 30, 2020
• Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? By Max Roser, Our World in Data, October 29, 2020
  
• Should U.S. look to UK's single-payer National Health Service for next health care moves? PBS NewsHour, September 1, 2020
  
• COMING SOON: U.S. Health Care: Best in the World? PBS NewsHour, August 31, 2020
  
• Is U.S. health care the best or 'least effective' system in the modern world? PBS NewsHour, August 31, 2020
• In the UK’s health system, rationing isn’t a dirty word  By Ezra Klein, vox.com, Jan 28, 2020
• The Netherlands has universal health insurance — and it’s all private  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 17, 2020
• Two sisters. Two different journeys through Australia’s health care system.  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 15, 2020
• Taiwan’s single-payer success story — and its lessons for America  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 13, 2020
• Obamacare
• For Some Americans, the End of Obamacare Subsidies Means Falling Off a Financial Cliff By Irena Hwang, Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Jan. 30, 2026
• A middle-class family’s only option: A $43,000 health insurance premium By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, December 21, 2025 [The end of covid-era subsidies is placing intense economic pressure on insurers and consumers in some ACA markets.]
• GOP plans to replace Obamacare have failed. Here’s what lawmakers propose now. By Dan Diamond and Paige Winfield Cunningham, The Washington Post, November 16, 2025
• What’s Behind the Dispute Over Extending Health Care Subsidies By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, October 7, 2025
• Health Care: Jonathan Gruber Interview by Paul Krugman, Substack, July 5, 2025
• Obamacare worked. The nation should double down. By The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, February 18, 2024
  
• Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 25, 2024
  
• Donald Trump Still Wants to Kill Obamacare. Why? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 30, 2023
• It’s Boom Times for Obamacare. Will They Last? By Noah Weiland, The New York Times, January 26, 2024
• Biden’s Hidden Health Care Triumph By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 10, 2022
  
• Obamacare, in Its First Big Test as Safety Net, Is Holding Up So Far By Margot Sanger-Katz, Sarah Kliff and Quoctrung Bui, The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2020
• Obamacare Versus the G.O.P. Zombies By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 29, 2020
• Republicans Killed the Obamacare Mandate. New Data Shows It Didn’t Really Matter. By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2020
  
• Hospitals
• Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs By Brian M. Rosenthal and Mark Hansen, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2025
• Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed By Jordan Rau and Irena Hwang, The New York Times, July 15, 2025
• Inside one of the largest hospital scandals in US history | Gutted | Fault Lines Documentary Al Jazeera English, May 13, 2025
• They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2022
• How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor By Ellen Gabler, The New York Times, January 16, 2025
• Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, December 5, 2024
• Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals By Bethany McLean, The Washington Post, October 17, 2024
• 'You're not God': Doctors and patient families say HCA hospitals push hospice care By Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, June 21, 2023
  
• This Is Why Nursing Homes Failed So Badly By E. Tammy Kim, The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2020
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• Bidencare Would Be a Big Deal By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 5, 2020
  
• Employer-Based Health Care, Meet Massive Unemployment By Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times, June 29, 2020
  
• Bottomless Pinocchio: Trump’s claim that he will ‘always’ protect those with preexisting conditions By Salvador Rizzo, The Washington Post, June 29, 2020
  
• A Shadow Medical Safety Net, Stretched to the Limit  By Mattathias Schwartz, The New York Times Magazine, May 6, 2020
• First, the coronavirus pandemic took their jobs. Then, it wiped out their health insurance.  By Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post, April 18, 2020
• How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits  By Natasha Singer, The New York Times, March 12, 2020 [Review of "PHARMA: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America" By Gerald Posner]
• I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.  By Helen Ouyang, The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2020
• America Can Afford a World-Class Health System. Why Don’t We Have One? By Anne Case and Angus Deaton, The New York Times, April 14, 2020
• A Corporate Merger Cost America Ventilators By Tim Wu, The New York Times, April 12, 2020
• The U.S. Approach to Public Health: Neglect, Panic, Repeat  By Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times, April 9, 2020
• The Health System We’d Have if Economists Ran Things by Austin Frakt, The New York Times, February 17, 2020
• The answer to America’s health care cost problem might be in Maryland By Tara Golshan, vox.com, Jan 22, 2020
• Opinion: The U.S. can slash health-care costs 75% with 2 fundamental changes — and without ‘Medicare for All’  By Sean Masaki Flynn, MarketWatch, Nov. 9, 2019 [Focus on Singapore]
• Putting Profits Ahead of Patients By Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, The New York Review of Books, July 13, 2017. [Health care in the US is enormously costly, often in ways that are baffling not only to patients but to doctors themselves.] 
• Health: The Right Diagnosis and the Wrong Treatment By Marcia Angell, The New York Review of Books, April 23, 2015. [Review of 'America’s Bitter Pill’ by Steven Brill.]
• On Breaking One’s Neck By Arnold Relman, The New York Review of Books, February 6, 2014. [A doctor’s near-death experience and what it reveals about the US medical care system.]
• Data
• OECD Health Statistics 
• Financing Healthcare By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser, Our World in Data, June 16, 2017
• Update
• NHANES R Package CRAN,  
• NHANES CDC
• Download NHANES data using R Ehsan Karim
• Analytic data creation using NHANES using R Ehsan Karim
• Introduction to R for health data analysis Ehsan Karim
• Complex survey data analysis course with causal inference methods Ehsan Karim (NHANES examples)
• Deep dive into health survey data analysis for R using DHS and NHANES By Kyle Monahan, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Sep 27, 2023
• NHANES Introduction By Sri Banerjee, YouTube, Feb 12, 2022
• How to use NHANES for diet sustainability analyses By Zach Conrad, YouTube, Sep 27, 2023