Don McCanne, MD

An article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine casts doubt that malpractice reform would reduce the use of supposed "defensive medicine."

Accountable care has taken a stronghold in today's healthcare environment, and the trend is progressing, according to respondents from Premier's semiannual Outlook survey.

Business has a vital concern in the financing of healthcare. So why is there not an outcry to switch to a proven financing system that would serve their employees well?

One of the worst failures of the Affordable Care Act is that, even with subsidies, the premiums and out-of-pocket expenses are unaffordable for far too many people. Unfortunately, a new proposal for catastrophic plans with very high deductibles would make accessing healthcare truly unaffordable for even more people.

Thomas Piketty’s new book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is not about healthcare, but it provides us with an excellent background for understanding why we need to reform our current healthcare financing system.