This piece originally appeared in Public Health Post and is coauthored by Elsa Pearson (@epearsonbusph) and Austin Frakt (@afrakt). Research for this work was funded
The federal government recently approved Massachusetts Medicaid waiver that includes plans for an ACO program. Want the details? See my latest AcademyHealth post. @afrakt
A paper published last year by Stryjewski et al. found that Massachusetts health reform was not associated with health improvements for patients with certain chronic conditions. A
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2014, The New York Times Company). I thank Daniel Liebman for his assistance tracking down some evidence for an early
I usually stay out of the political-talk that surrounds the ACA. But I couldn’t let this go. This is Ron Fournier at NationalJournal (emphasis mine):
Over at the New England Journal of Medicine, Rebecca Haffajee, Wendy Parmet, and Michelle Mello have a provocative piece criticizing Governor Deval Patrick’s invocation of
My latest post at the AcademyHealth blog: One of the critical questions about health care reform asks how much good reform will do to improve
Martha Bebinger describes it, and you can listen to the audio at the link. [In a] deal reached Monday between Partners [Healthcare] and Attorney General Martha
Jim Manzi suggests we view the results of the Massachusetts mortality study by Sommers et al. with some caution. (The study and related issues have been discussed by me here and here; Adrianna here;
In his comments on the Sommers et al. study, Philip Klein raises an important question about the ACA and freedom. This study reported that when RomneyCare insured the
I began my editorial on the already famous Massachusetts mortality study, How certain are we that health insurance reduces mortality rates? Weeks before the Patient Protection
Many people are contrasting the Oregon study—which didn’t find statistically significant effects of coverage on biomarkers associated with physical health—with the new Massachusetts study—which found a
