The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make comparisons of medical care expenditures between smokers...

Health Care Is Not a Right -- Single-Payer Proposals under Consideration -- The March to Single Payer -- The Horrors of Single Payer - Waits -- The Horrors of Single Payer - Access to Cutting-Edge Treatments and Technologies -- The Horrors of Single Payer - Financial Costs -- The Horrors of...

Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death by disease in the U.S. Diabetes also contributes to higher rates of morbidity-people with diabetes are at higher risk for heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, extremity amputations, and other chronic conditions. This study estimates the direct...

We propose a new approach for estimating the state-level direct and indirect economic cost of obesity in the United States for the time period 1996 to 2018. Our unique top-down methodology integrates a prevalence-based method with various medical-level costs, economic, demographic, and...