Month: April 2010

ACA’s Employer Mandate

Paul N. Van de Water of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a summary of the ACA’s employer mandate. You might recall (or

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ACA Growing Pains: Medicaid

Christopher Weaver of Kaiser Health News has piece today on ACA-mandated changes to federal/state sharing of drug rebates under Medicaid. Democrats included a provision in

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Zipf’s Law

A few weeks ago I wrote about Benford’s Law, the strange fact that the measurements of many things begin more often with lower valued digits

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Broccoli vs. Milk

Getting back to the important issue of why we see commercials for one food commodity, milk say (“Got milk?”) and not another, like broccoli, two

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Physician Cost Shifting

Jason Shafrin summarizes a 1999 paper on physician cost shifting from Medicare to private payers: Thomas Rice, Sally C. Stearns, Donald E. Pathman, Susan DesHarnais,

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The Double Down

I’ve wanted to do a post on KFC’s new sandwich, but I’ve held back. I’ve been on a health kick lately.  And, since I’ve been

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New normals

One of the problems with the obesity epidemic is that we’ve reset what we consider to be “normal”.  I see this all the time with

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