Tag: American exceptionalism

Our Healthcare System is Full of Traps for the Unwary, and Needn’t Be: Medicare Observation Status

If you should ever find yourself thinking that you know everything there is to know about a given part of our healthcare system, please, think again. Think again because, at that very point in time, just when you least expect it and are at your most ultra-hubristic max, you just […]

Our Healthcare System is a Battlefield, and Needn’t Be: Dying from Cancer in the U.S. vs. Dying from Cancer in France

Making the blogosphere rounds this past week was a very interesting article by Anya Schiffrin. The article compares what it’s like having stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the U.S. healthcare system vs. what it’s like having stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the French healthcare system (for those who always have […]