Resources
There's a lot of information out there. We hope to address many of your concerns in the blog, but if we haven't addressed your specific concern (yet), please see below for sites and organizations that can help:
Read
- America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill
- An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elizabeth Rosenthal
- The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It by Jeanne Lenzer
- ProPublica: Healthcare series on wasted medicine, patient privacy, patient safety, and more
- Vox: Treating depression is guesswork. Psychiatrists are beginning to crack the code.
- Vox: VoxCare newsletter for daily healthcare news
- Health Market: The Pros and Cons of Medicare
- HealthNewsReview.org
listen
- Freakonomics: Bad Medicine, Parts 1, 2, and 3
- Kaiser Health News: What the Health?
- Freakonomics: Are you Ready for a Glorious Sunset?
- Planet Money: Pay Patients, Save Money
- Sparks (538): Why Health Care Costs So Much
Advocacy organizations
- Alliance for Patient Access
- National Health Council
- Chronic Disease Coalition
- Families USA
- Lown Institute
- Right Care Alliance
- The Patient Revolution
Health insurance and government agencies
- Affordable Care Act Exchange Homepage
- USA.gov
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners (map)
- Department of Health and Human Services
Research centers
- National Library of Medicine
- Mayo Clinic
- National Institute of Health (NIH)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Cleveland Clinic
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Joslin Clinic (Diabetes)
Events
- March 15-16, 2018*: Patients As Partners Conference
- April 9-10, 2018*: Lown Institute Conference
- April 26-27, 2018: Health Datapalooza
- April 27-28, 2018: HealtheVoices
- May 17, 2018: What's the Fix?
- September 14-16, 2018: Stanford Medicine X
- September 16-19, 2018: Health 2.0
* We may list some past events to inform readers that they happened and to encourage you to investigate highlights and outcomes of those events.
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