What I’m Reading: The New York Times

The Obama administration has spent billions on getting doctors and hospitals to computerize patient records, but not everyone is playing along.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/us/electronic-medical-record-sharing-is-hurt-by-business-rivalries.html

What I’m Reading: Huffington Post

 

It's Not Just You -- Those Health Insurance Deductibles Are Getting Scary

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/health-insurance-deductibles_n_7337406.html

 

 

What I’m Reading: Vox

 

The debate over prescription painkillers, explained.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8611703/the-debate-over-prescription-painkillers-explained

 

 

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

The diversification of modern health care has made it increasingly difficult for patients to be exactly where they should be when things go wrong.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/the-importance-of-getting-sick-in-the-right-place

 

What I'm Reading: The New York Times

 

Health officials will require insurers to update doctor directories and hope to help patients estimate out-of-pocket costs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/us/politics/health-care-law-consumer-complaints-to-get-addressed-by-white-house.html

 

What I’m Reading: Yahoo News Digest

Newly discovered deep sea microbes missing link in evolution.

http://yahoonewsdigest-us.tumblr.com/118388741499

What I’m Reading: The New York Times

 

This story fits in a long-running rant about the profits being generated by the drug companies and the relative hands off approach taken by politicians compared to the attention and the cost-cutting forced on hospitals and physicians.

Spending on pharmaceuticals is more than $400 billion a year in the U.S. In 2012, the top 11 drug companies earned about $85 billion in net profits. In order to protect those profits, “Big Pharma” spent nearly $2.7 billion on lobbying over the last 15 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/opinion/runaway-drug-prices.html?smpro