Volume 159 (2010-2011)

The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was an incomplete victory and will remain so even… Continue reading →

On March 23, 2010, the United States took a giant step toward achieving universal health care, an elusive goal it… Continue reading →

The most serious problem with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is not its contents but its packaging.… Continue reading →

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) stands out as the intriguing wild card of health care reform. CER compares competing treatments against… Continue reading →

The Affordable Care Act embodies a new social contract of health care solidarity through private ownership, markets, choice, and individual… Continue reading →

People who are politically “conservative” or “libertarian” in the way those terms are often deployed in contemporary American public discourse… Continue reading →

Research over the past three decades has demonstrated that population health is shaped powerfully by “[t]he contexts in which people… Continue reading →

Patient injury is a predictable feature of health care, particularly in hospitals, in the United States and elsewhere. Since publication… Continue reading →

It is hard to overstate the intense political and media attention given to health care. New medical discoveries and technologies… Continue reading →

When Congress drafted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Democratic lawmakers and most legal scholars had good reason… Continue reading →