Alexandra Stern ([email protected]) is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine and associate director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan ...

H. Stephen Kaye ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Health and Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, both at the University of California, San ...

The list price of branded drugs sold in the US market often differs substantially from the “net” prices ultimately paid for them—a phenomenon that has grown more pronounced in recent years. While list ...

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, health care leaders warned that hospitals face a nursing shortage. The repeated surges of COVID-19 have made the situation dire, in part due to nurse burnout and ...

Administrative spending accounts for 15–30 percent of health care spending. The US spends more on health care administration than comparable countries. At least half of administrative spending is ...