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Dealing with Serious Illness Is Hard. A New Partnership Explores Why the Health System Makes It Even Harder.
I was a practicing primary care physician for more than 35 years. In that time, I learned that to be sick is always hard, frightening, and overwhelming. But being sick in America can be doubly so.
Creating Effective Health Care Markets
Given this fundamental divide surrounding health care reform, it’s worth considering the conditions underlying the effective functioning of market economies, whether those conditions currently prevail in health care and, if not, what changes would be r…
Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to Train Leaders in Minority Health Expands to Yale University
Yale University announced the launch of a new Commonwealth Fund-supported fellowship program dedicated to helping clinicians who want to improve care for vulnerable populations. In our centennial year, the start of this new fellowship reaffirms the Fun…
AT&T, Time Warner, and the Future of Health Care
The recent federal district court ruling allowing the merger of AT&T and Time Warner — a case of so-called vertical integration — will likely encourage similar unions throughout the U.S. economy, including in health care. Nevertheless, a close look at …
