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

• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

• What is a Pharmacy Benefit Manager, Anyway?

• ProPublica: Healthcare series on wasted medicine, patient privacy, patient safety, and more

• Vox: VoxCare newsletter for daily healthcare news

• HealthNewsReview.org

• Kaiser Health News and Politifact: Healthcheck

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

• Mighty Casey Quinlan: Healthcare is Hilarious!

• NPR: Life Kit

Advocacy organizations

• Alliance for Patient Access

• National Health Council

• Chronic Disease Coalition

• Families USA

• Lown Institute

• Right Care Alliance

• The Patient Revolution

• My Patient Rights

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

• *February 4-5, 2019: 2019 National Health Policy Conference

• *February 11-12, 2019: Agents of Change Summit

• *February 11-15, 2019: HIMSS19 Global Conference and Exhibition

• *February 28, 2019: Cato Institute Big Fat Nutrition Policy

• *March 21, 2019: Cato Institute Harm Reduction: Shifting from a War on Drugs to a War on Drug-Related Deaths

• *March 27-28, 2019: 2019 Health Datapalooza

• *April 2, 2019: Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit

• August 21-23, 2019: National Academy For State Health Policy Conference

* We may list some past events to inform readers that they happened and to encourage you to investigate highlights and outcomes of those events.