A look into the complexities of medical insurance and the consequences that rural communities could face if healthcare systems morph into insurance providers.
Read MoreLook What’s Coming
The Ebola Response
Argues that people underestimate the risk posed by familiar dangers and overreact to strange and foreign hazards.
Read MoreHospital Quality: Tough Issue!
Discusses whether quality measures and patients’ wishes may be at odds, and how that affects the perception of whether rural hospitals provide quality care.
Read MoreBad News, Good News
An early childhood education intervention project in North Carolina is proving to have long-term health benefits for some of the participants 30 years later.
Read MoreSocioeconomic Policy Is Health Policy
The United States spends more on medical care and less on social services than other developed countries, yet social services can be just as important to health outcomes.
Read MoreThe Limits of Medical Care
We need new approaches to keeping people healthy, instead of trying to heal them after they get sick.
Read MoreA Lesson From Hazard
Poor life expectancy statistics in Perry County, Ky., seem to contradict generally accepted ideas about lifespan factors.
Read MoreFrom the Gun Cabinet
After treating many tragic gunshot injuries as a physician, Myers argues that guns need safeguards.
Read MoreWhat I Saw in 2019
Myers visits the year 2019 and likes what he sees, especially the formation of regional health care systems.
Read MoreThe Politics of Living Longer
Rural people are dying younger—what can be done?
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