Language, Culture, And Medical Tragedy: The Case Of Willie Ramirez

Editor’s Note: The November-December issue of Health Affairs contains essays by a physician and a medical interpreter on the challenges and perils of navigating language gaps between medical...

Primary Care: Divergent Paths In U.S. And Abroad

The contrast could hardly have been more sharp. In a week when The New England Journal of Medicine published a series of perspectives exhorting the United States to reinvent primary care before it...

New Health Affairs Issue Examines “The Price Of Medical Technology”

Economist Uwe Reinhardt once likened the payment system for U.S. health care to a fictional employer-sponsored “clothes benefit program.” Companies would reimburseworkers for 80 percent of the...

Obama And Health Policy: Campaign Successes And Governing Plans

In the closing weeks of his successful race to the White House, the campaign of President-Elect Barack Obama made a strategic decision to blanket the air waves and his stump speeches with health-care...

Obama, McCain Advisers Lead Top 10 On Health Affairs Blog

Health reform plan critiques from Obama and McCain advisors topped the list of most-read posts on Health Affairs Blog for October. Additional commenting is welcome. To stay on top of new postings,...