This fluffy consumer-oriented piece about the benefits of subscription-based services misses some key issues that it could have covered, like the seller's incentive to seek renewals, and like the challenging revenue recognition issues. One might expect more from a publication like this.

This opinion piece clearly explains a serious problem in US policy that's leading to the loss of knowledge work to other countries.

A fascinating first-person account of a man whose father died from an infection he got in a hospital. Goldhill considers the costs of insurance, and makes a strong case against the moral hazard of third-party payer health care.

Fascinating! A well-wriitten and engaging account of medical students who take the role of residents of skilled nursing facilities, and get first-hand experience of what it's like to live there.

This story is typical of the journalistic laziness that has allowed the public debate about health-care reform to be swamped by rumors and misinformation. The truth of the matter is that the EHR initiative is based on open-source offerings already in use by the VA that have shown remarkable success in controlling costs while improving veterans' care.

Terrific piece showing the details of end-of-life care, and the hard work of compassion everybody goes through -- health professionals, families, patients. It's worth reading this three times -- once as if you're a family member, again as if you're the doctor, and again as if you're the patient. Only one critique: the piece has nothing to say about the spiritual dimension of end-of-life care. Every accredited hospital and every hospice offers a chaplaincy service; these folks are ... More »

This brief story attempts, without much success, to put the accusations of mandatory euthanasia into context. Every day in any hospitals there are questions about whether a dying patient should be put on a respirator, or not. This story might have done better if it dealt with those situations, not just crude Nazi-era eugenics.

This brief account of a religious convention doesn't go into sufficient depth on the prosperity gospel movement, or its history of fleecing people.

Brodner has turned transcripts of the interviews gathered by NY Attorney General Cuomo into a fascinating narrative of the cell-phone and board-room wheeling and dealing that led to Bank of America closing the deal with the failing Merrill Lynch at the first of the year 2009.

This balanced article tells two stories -- one of patients who get stuck with large medical bills, and another of physicians and other providers who try to make up their managed-care losses by charging a lot to out-of-network patients.

The lede of this mostly good story about patient confidentiality is missing a key point: the effective date of the privacy part of the Health Insurance Privacy and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) didn't go into effect until 2003, well after the privacy breach the article describes.

Interesting reflective surgeon's account of treating a patient who waited too long. The author explores how the healthcare system copes with such patients, and how they try to understand what went wrong. It touches on the issue of community distrust of medicine, but doesn't dig into that deeply.

In this opinion piece, Pearlstein loses his cool over the baloney being thrown around by opponents of health care reform. But in the midst of that he clearly explains the insurance exchange and some of the financing numbers.

Interesting interview with a skillful politician about the financial challenges facing local governments.

Terrible, narrow-minded story. It doesn't explain the Islamic concept of Zakat, in which the faithful are expected to give 1/40th of their net worth to charity each year. It doesn't explain what a problem that huge fountain of money is to distribute, and how the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development is one of many organizations trying to put that money to charitable use.

What a bunch of lurid foolishness! This from a newspaper that won't run comic strips ... "Megachurch congregants like having sex!" wow! who knew? Give me a break.