Fall 2003 Money magazine is entirely devoted to health care issues.

In addition to consumer information for the intelligent, inquisitive,
value-oriented patient on how to assess personal health care needs and ask
informed
questions regarding procedures and drugs, it also includes a great deal of very
accurate and readable economic analysis of the causes of various problems in the
US medical system, shorn of political rhetoric.

It includes an anecdotal look at medical care in Britain's National Health
Service, articles analyzing patterns and causes of rising US health care
spending (including perverse incentive built into Medicare and 3rd party payment
systems), the economics and politics of Medicare reform and prescription drug
costs, the financial challenges of medical training and starting and operating a
practice, etc.

I highly recommend it for personal reading and prominet display in physician
waiting rooms.