I am adding a note to this post for two reasons. The first is that people I have respect have pointed out to me that
You may remember that a few months ago, I – along with some other people – were a bit upset about an article Megan McArdle
Unfortunately, the letter I drafted with colleagues in response to Megan McArdle’s March 2010 The Atlantic article “Myth Diagnosis” was not published in the magazine.
February brought the greatest number of monthly hits to this blog to date, by about a factor of two. The traffic boost was mainly due
You should read Michael Cannon’s post at Forbes in which he comments on the state of the evidence base in support of universal coverage. Before one
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
There’s no shortage of empirical debates in health policy, but few have been so fraught as the question of whether health insurance actually delivers health gains
Given some of the recent developments, I wanted to quickly follow up on my post from last week, which weighed potential consequences of a mandate
There is an interesting detail in the results from the Oregon Medicaid Experiment (read Austin and Aaron’s many recent posts on this blog for background). Recall
As provisions of the ACA are implemented — if they are implemented — there will be a lot of competing claims about the extent to
2010 Steve Benen. (12/21/10). The GOPs emergency-room argument lives. The Washington Monthly. Patrick Appel. (12/21/10). Why not call the ACA “Obamacare?” The Atlantic. Ezra Klein.
From John Goodman today: With respect to cancer care, it is unclear that Medicaid matters very much. Health blogger Avik Roy has written about other studies
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