Affordable Healthcare

Massachusetts Mandatory Health Insurance Law for Young People

I don’t know what your finances looked like when you were when you were 18 or in your early twenties, but I was a starving graduate student barely able to afford rent. If now I have to pay at least $100 each month on top of my expenses, I’d sink deeper into debt unless I [...]

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Medical Malpractice Makes Unaffordable Healthcare

Philip K. Howard is a lawyer, author, and chair of an organization that aims to “restore common sense to American Law” called Common Good. In a recent issue of Wall Street Journal, Mr. Howard suggested that our aims for safer and affordable American healthcare can only come true when we change our current legal system. [...]

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Truth in Healthcare Sits Between Extremes

A friend sent me an article called, “Drugged out of our minds“, written by Larry M. Jones, a retired Navy Commander and aviator in Texas. Mr. Jones thought the reasons given by drug companies for high drug costs smelled fishy and didn’t appreciate having to fight for a parking space or waiting room seat with [...]

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Affordable Healthcare Dilemma

By Faiz Kermani Healthcare can be an emotionally charged subject. Therefore, it comes as little surprise that most governments around the world struggle to implement a healthcare policy that is acceptable to all. A growing component of healthcare expenditure is spending on pharmaceuticals, and this feature of medical care has received considerable attention. Complex issues [...]

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