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["Can't you please just fit me in somewhere?" 18th-c. engraving] If you're my friend (or have read my blog), you know ...

On an autumn day in 2007, while I was visiting from California, my mother made a request I both dreaded and longed to fulfill. She'd ...

This morning a Canadian woman wrote such an interesting comment on an old post of mine, "Rationing is not a four-letter word," ...

I signed up for Medicare last month. In addition to standard Medicare, I added Part D, the prescription drug benefit. My 2013  costs, if t...

Opponents of Obamacare like to talk about how long it takes to get a hip replacement in, say, Canada (even though the Affordable Care Act ...

TIME magazine has put its brilliant long cover article, "Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us" (March 4, 2013), behind a paywall, s...