Margot Sanger-Katz

Hospitals like Pittsburgh’s UPMC created enough jobs to end the recession. If they keep it up, they’ll wreck …

We’re cynics about insurance companies and critics of big health care systems. So why do we still believe in …

The Affordable Care Act was designed to lower costs. Instead, by encouraging hospitals to merge, it could boo…

The Supreme Court decision last year holding that “Obamacare” was legal was seen as a victory. But it eviscer…

If you've been reading all the Obamacare stories lately, you might get the impression that the administration…

Instead of skimping on the most expensive care, the giant retailer is sending its workers to top-tier hospita…

The number of teeth in this country grows, even as the number of dentists shrinks. Guess who gets squeezed ou…

In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama took credit for a puzzling but welcome trend: mi…

How quickly the politics of health care has changed. Just over a month ago, the country was debating whether …

It turns out that government insurance is much cheaper than private coverage—pitting the GOP principles of fi…

The Republican candidates say that proliferating private health insurance plans will lead to innovation and c…

In his convention speech in Charlotte, President Obama vowed to block the Republican Medicare reform plan bec…

The campaign conversation we're having now was accurately predicted last year by Rep. Steve Israel of chairma…

Fight as they may about whose plan will shore up Medicare's fiscal future, neither President Obama nor Mitt R…

The biggest losers in the Obama administration's Supreme Court victory are the poor.

Whatever the Supreme Court does on Thursday, there's no time machine for the health care system. Legally, a r…