Peter Ubel
Forbes
Durham, NC, United States
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Time To Take Tax Breaks Away From Non-Profit Hospitals
Many nonprofit hospitals in the United States are not performing enough charitable care to justify the billions of dollars of tax breaks they receive. → Read More
Income Inequality Kills—Especially If You Live In The US
Income inequality kills. As demonstrated by an important study comparing health in the US and UK: 1. People with low incomes had significantly more health problems than those with high incomes. 2. Differences in health across income was significantly greater in the US. → Read More
Clinicians shouldn't be punished for taking care of needy populations
Medicare reimbursement needs to account for the challenges of caring for patients whose life circumstances are particularly challenging. Providers shouldn't be punished for taking care of needy populations. → Read More
Patients alone cannot combat high health care prices
It should never be up to patients alone, as “consumers,” to combat high health care prices. Nevertheless, rewards programs like this deserve a role in broader efforts to constrain health care spending. → Read More
Is the FDA too slow to handle the pandemic?
We shouldn’t face the pandemic with an obsolete view of the FDA as an organization that is too slow to handle a crisis. → Read More
Quality measures have gotten ahead of the science of quality measurement
Their results strongly suggest that the use of quality measures, by payers and accrediting organizations, has gotten ahead of the science of quality measurement. → Read More
Why Tall People Feel So Intimidating. A Surprising Explanation.
Admit it: you can often tell a lot about a person’s personality from their facial expressions. → Read More
The key to happiness is not a mystery
Spend time with people you care about. Develop a happiness plan, and make sure that plan involves finding ways to interact more meaningfully with the people you love. → Read More
How do you know if you have hypertension and need medication?
High blood pressure is the silent killer. It puts people at risk for heart attacks, strokes, vascular disease, kidney failure. It is basically really bad to have longstanding, undertreated high blood pressure. → Read More
Does socialized medical care provide higher quality than private care?
The high quality of kidney care in the VA health care system does not prove that socialized health care systems are better than alternatives. → Read More
Having health coverage isn’t the same as being covered
We need to recommit ourselves to guaranteeing people access to affordable health care insurance. → Read More
Medicaid: It's an Antipoverty Program, Stupid!
If we think of Medicaid as being only a healthcare program, we overlook its much bigger impact on people’s lives. Medicaid is an antipoverty program. Medicaid helps people avoid poverty by relieving them of the costs of necessary medical care. → Read More
Welcome to the new normal: practices of 500 physicians or more
I expect the movement to consolidate physician practices isn’t about to reverse course. → Read More
American physicians deserve timely payment
American physicians also deserve timely payment when they provide needed care to their patients. → Read More
Why is it so difficult for Americans to make doctors' appointments?
It should not take a crying jag for an American to get a timely medical appointment. → Read More
If we don’t pay now to vaccinate our children, they will pay later
The federal government should make sure private insurers reimburse primary care physicians generously enough for HPV vaccines to cover the cost of providing those important treatments. → Read More
Are generic drug price hikes media hype?
I hope the media continues to raise a ruckus whenever generic manufacturers raise their prices too high. → Read More
Screening elderly men for prostate cancer: More harm than good?
When I reach my 70s, I don’t plan on asking my primary care doctor to screen me for prostate cancer. → Read More
The Greediest Companies In American Healthcare Are Not Who You Think
New cancer drugs routinely cost more than $100,000 per patient, even when they bring only modest benefits. And some generic medications are going up in price rapidly. There is a sector of the healthcare industry that has flow under the radar but is just as egregious as more publicized groups. → Read More
Insurers Are Not Paying Enough For HPV Vaccines
The HPV vaccine saves lives. Vaccinate your teenage daughter against HPV, and you will increase the chance she will live to old age. Simple as that. Yet currently, the majority of American teenagers, boys and girls, are reaching adulthood without the full protection of the vaccine. → Read More