The Cost Conundrum

What a Texas town can teach us about health care.

Americans like to believe that, with most things, more is better. But research suggests that where medicine is concerned it may actually be worse.., In fact, the four states with the highest levels of spending—Louisiana, Texas, California, and Florida—were near the bottom of the national rankings on the quality of patient care. Full Story »

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Akash Parikh
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by Akash Parikh - Dec. 29, 2009

Gawande takes a different approach to looking at health care then most other publications. Other publications look at current plans and whether they would help fix the broken health care system; Gawande compares places that are broken and places that work and tries to understand why things are broken. This piece is ground breaking in its portrayal of the state of healthcare in America and where the medical incentives are. It will make you really reconsider how you look at ways to "fix" healthcare.

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