Healthcare Costs, Insurance, and Debt

Health & Capitalism

• Health care profits concentrated at drug companies (Axios)
• How a push to cut costs and boost profits at surgery centers led to a trail of death (USA Today)

Medical Debt

• This Is the No. 1 Reason Americans File for Bankruptcy (Fox Business)
• How Not to Die in America (Splinter News)
• The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality (The Atlantic)

Health Insurance

• The U.S. Spends $2,500 Per Person on Health Care Administrative Costs. Canada Spends $550. Here's Why (Time)
  

• It’s Time For Health Insurance To Pay For Dental Care (Forbes)
• The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst (The Atlantic)
• 50 Health Issues That Count as a Pre-existing Condition (Money)
• Investigation following stunning admission by Aetna medical director (CNN)
• A Medicaid challenge: Poor health, but a drive to improve (Associated Press)
• One big thing people don’t know about single payer (Axios)
• A doctor bikes across the country to ask Americans about Obamacare (Wall Street Pit)
• Disposable Americans: U.S. health care system is condemning thousands to early death (Salon)

Health Insurance Coverage & Demographics

• In rural America, tightened access to Medicaid means tough choices (PBS News Hour)
• Millions Pay the Obamacare Penalty Instead of Buying Insurance. Who Are They? (The New York Times)
• The number of insured Americans just hit a new high (Vox)
• This is what Washington has been fighting about (Axios)
• Here's What Health Insurance Coverage Looks Like Now (NBC News)
• What we know about the 30 million Americans who are still uninsured (Vox)

Alternative Healthcare Options

• Some family doctors ditch insurance for simpler approach (AP News)
• A new kind of doctor's office charges a monthly fee and doesn't take insurance — and it could be the future of medicine (Business Insider)

Healthcare Costs

• What The Left Doesn’t Understand About Health Care Prices (Forbes)

• The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care

• Large Number of People Skipping Necessary Medical Care Because of Cost (Market Watch)
• Same cancer, worse results and twice the cost in the US (CNN)
• Why Is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons You’ve Heard Turn Out to Be Myths (The New York Times)
• Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care (The New York Times)
• 4 reasons why US health care is so expensive (CNN)
• Here's how much people spend on healthcare by state (Business Insider)
• The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill (The New York Times)
• Fixing the Five Percent (The Atlantic)
• The Platinum Patients (The Atlantic)

Healthcare Cost Abuses & Inefficiencies

• Health care's widespread overbilling problem (Axios)