On Dec. 14 a Texas judge declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. In New York, the New York State of Heath insurance exchange reported gains in enrollment.
The other opioid crisis
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Rochester health care providers are hard at work averting another type of opioid crisis: a shortage of injectable opioids for home hospice and other outpatients who truly need them. How are they dealing with the challenge?
Policy Wonk
Health care in wonderland: single payer for New York
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It will take a lot of faith to support the New York State Health Act, a proposal to establish a single-payer system in New York. Can a single-payer plan achieve universal coverage? What would be required to implement the plan? And, if implemented, can it save money or, at least, break even?
Health & Science
The Private Practice Squeeze
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Faced with rising costs and declining payments, a growing number of doctors in private practice are quitting the fight. Remaining private practitioners increasingly are driven by economics to form or join large group practices.
Health & Science
RIP, Obamacare
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We stand watch at Obamacare’s bedside today, filled with uncertainty about the timing of its demise and what will follow. This is likely to be a bad death, filled with misery and leaving behind discord.
Beaconomics
Independent hospitals are a dying breed
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In 1990, there were 13 private, independent hospitals in Monroe County and the five counties that surround it. Today, nearly all these local hospitals have become part of either Rochester Regional Health or the University of Rochester system.