Tag: Insurance

  • Nation & World

    Treating runaway health costs

    Study led by Harvard researchers finds that a long-term trial of a capped-payment system encouraged preventative care and discouraged unnecessary spending

    5 minutes
    Hospital beds
  • Nation & World

    Fresh start at the VA

    Robert McDonald, new U.S. secretary of veterans affairs, detailed initial progress in reforming the department, which has been scarred by revelations of mismanagement and lengthy, perhaps life-threatening, waits for veterans needing care.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Among the missing

    Harvard Extension School instructor Sarah Braunstein’s new novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” plumbs the vulnerability of childhood.

    3 minutes