Rationing
6/5/2012 1:40 PM ET
Is the New York Times pushing universal coverage by advocating curbing health care costs and limits on use of painkillers and other care? Dotted throughout the paper's health reporting are ...
7/27/2010 4:56 PM ET
New York Times health reporter Robert Pear attempted to dispel Berwick's image as a cost-cutting, ivory-tower intellectual who favors severe health-care rationing, but left off his most direct ...
7/27/2010 3:19 PM ET
Health reporter Robert Pear attempted to dispel Berwick's image as a cost-cutting, Ivory-tower intellectual who favors severe health-care rationing, but left off his most direct paeans to ...
12/28/2009 11:15 AM ET
After months of Times stories pushing the need for limits on end-of-life care in the name of universal health care, reporter Reed Abelson looks at the other side and makes a shocking discovery: ...
12/8/2009 1:43 PM ET
Andrew Pollack greets a new tumor-shrinking drug with concerns about costs, as if cancer-fighting drugs come cheap: "A newly approved chemotherapy drug will cost about $30,000 a month, a sign that ...
11/20/2009 2:37 PM ET
Health care reporter Kevin Sack on outcry against recommendations that women under 50 no longer get mammograms: "This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American ...
10/5/2009 5:10 PM ET
Staff writer argues U.S. care delivered in 'haphazard, even illogical, way.'
10/1/2009 2:53 PM ET
The next big thing in heart surgery are replacement valves, which can be implanted without open-heart surgery. But instead of evaluating this as a straightforward boon to humanity, the Times ...
8/25/2009 12:45 PM ET
Surprise: Reporter Kevin Sack treated conservative concerns about health-care rationing with respect.
8/24/2009 1:21 PM ET
A week after the Times declared concern over health-care rationing under Obama's reforms a "false" idea spread by conservative conspiracists, health care reporter Robert Fear says those "concerns ...
