Not a single COVID-19 crisis standard of care allocation plan suggests that life-saving critical care resources should go first to those able to pay or to the oldest in need. Yet, every day we ration healthcare in the United States, and with limited exceptions, care is rationed based on ability...

Policymaker commentary : how explicit benefits plans have helped Mexico in its transition towards UHC / Eduardo González Pier -- Defining the rules of the game : good governance principles for the design and revision of your benefits package / Ursula Giedion and Javier Guzmán -- Tracking the...

This article examines the usual explanations for high U.S. health care costs, including medical technology, physician spending, patient choices and others. It then looks at the Affordable Care Act and other regulatory ideas to slow and better rationalize the high costs of the American system,...