An accidental healthcare system -- Paging doctor Welby -- Therapy for an ailing health economy -- The managed care prescription -- Self-help -- The quality revolution -- Mending the safety net -- Reviving the American healthcare system

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the...

Perhaps more than any other sector of the economy, healthcare depends on government resources. As a result, many healthcare systems rely on the use of government monopsony power to decrease spending. The United States is a notable exception, where prices in large portions of the healthcare...

Perhaps more than any other sector of the economy, healthcare depends on government resources. As a result, many healthcare systems rely on the use of government monopsony power to decrease spending. The United States is a notable exception, where prices in large portions of the healthcare...

"When it comes to healthcare, bigger isn't always better. The early-1990s rise of "megaproviders"-large, hospital-based healthcare systems that have become the norm in American medicine-brought promises of accessibility, cost savings, and excellence to the American healthcare experience. Today's...