healthcare

For Snafus, Obamacare Has a Role Model

If You Want Horrible Healthcare Bureaucracy, the Private Sector Is Still the Reigning Champion

The nation’s new health insurance exchanges, the online marketplaces for medical coverage that are an integral part of Obamacare, opened for business last week. Immediately the trouble began. Web pages went blank. Attempts to enroll in coverage were delayed, or altogether stymied, as sites crashed. Critics of the law pounced. “Too many unanswered questions and too many unsolved problems,” said U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah.

Yet there’s another way to see these growing pains: as evidence not of change but of continuity for consumers of health insurance in America. …

by Randye Hoder |

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My Family’s Obamacare

Forget the Talking Points. Health Reform’s Impact Will Be as Varied as We Are.

by Micah Weinberg |

How will the Affordable Care Act affect my family and me? The answer, like the law itself, is complicated. There will be as many stories about health reform as there …

The American Way of Teeth

How Hollywood and Huckster Dentists Convinced Us That Our Choppers Shouldn’t Look, Well, British

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams |

I remember once seeing a British television documentary on the Cold War in which the cameras were admitted to a bunker built for the use of a U.S. congressman in …

Do I Have Any Business Being a Doctor?

For a Long Time, I Was Felled By Self-Doubt. Now I Think That Can Also Be a Strength.

by Catherine Jameson |

I am what schools refer to as a “non-traditional” student. (I prefer “experienced.”) I didn’t have the highest GPA or MCAT scores in the med school applicant pool. Grades I …

VA Chief Dean Norman

Putting a Man on the Moon Is Nothing Compared to Running a Hospital

Dr. Dean Norman is chief of staff of the VA Greater Los Angeles heathcare system. Before participating in a panel on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are changing …

Writer David H. Freedman

Is It Still a Condiment if I Eat It On Its Own?

David H. Freedman is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, author of Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing us—and How to Know When Not to Trust Them, and coauthor of The Perfect …


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