The wrangling over Obamacare continues in Congress. Meanwhile everywhere else implementation rolls on. In slightly over six months, most legal residents of the United States will be required to have health care coverage. Those currently covered are...

Here’s the good news and bad about the state of American health care entering the new year. According to an article published in the important journal Health Affairs, medical costs have plateaued for the third year running....

I almost missed it. It was one year ago today I put up the first piece for the Penn Square Post and Press. There was much worrying then about what I was getting in to. I didn’t...

One of the most important innovations in health care in the past two decades has been the all-electronic health record. Besides dealing with the centuries-old issue of doctors’ bad handwriting, it provides a more comprehensive record of...

One of the things reformers point to most frequently is the wasteful variation in medical practice. They do not understand why certain common diagnoses are handled differently by different providers. They have a good point. There is...