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August 11, 2009 | Story
Potentially avoidable complications (PACs) account for up to 40 cents of every dollar in U.S. health care spending across six common chronic conditions.
July 26, 2009 | Story
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey critiques the idea that more care is better care.
December 27, 2011 | Video/Story
The RWJF’s signature effort to improve the quality of care in the U.S.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. Executive director of FutureMed, Daniel Kraft, MD, discusses approaches to "escape velocity" in health care.
November 22, 2009 | Story
CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.
September 6, 2009 | Story
A Call for Bipartisan Compromise
June 30, 2009 | Story
In higher-spending regions.
June 30, 2009 | Story
For patients with similar conditions and similar outcomes, Medicare spends more than twice as much in some states as in others on services such as hospital stays, diagnostic tests and visits with specialists.
June 30, 2009 | Video/Story
Patients are empowered when they have information about their test results, medicines and the effectiveness of various treatments.