Fixing Health Care
By Wayne Caswell, Modern Health Talk founder An NPR story this week described a Congressional Budget Office report that tied health care to recent and future increases in the federal deficit, suggesting that the Affordable Care…
Robotic Device for Paraplegics
By Chris Miller (original at HealthWorksCollective) A new robotic device designed to help those with paraplegia stand and function as if they were walking is expected to hit the market as early as next month. Known…
US Healthcare Spending to hit $3.8 Trillion in 2014
Dan Munro wrote that annual U.S. healthcare spending will hit $3.8 trillion this year (~21% of GDP). 11/20/2015: Spending actually has stayed mostly flat at about $3 trillion. There’s good info in his Forbes article and the referenced…