Austin Frakt highlights a story in the Boston Globe on excess medical imaging: In today’s Boston Globe, Marilynn Marchione writes, Americans get the most medical
National health reform looks a lot like what has been implemented in Massachusetts. Will Massachusetts lead the way on cost control too? If so, it
In today’s Boston Globe, Marilynn Marchione writes, Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, even more than folks in other rich countries, according
My latest Kaiser Health News column is out. It’s about the bad political consequences of the good policy to cut payments to Medicare Advantage plans.
<set rant on> I don’t like the way the news media cite academic work. A typical (made-up) example reads, “A study by researchers at the
While the health care debate has abated somewhat in the US, it is still ongoing in Canada. On Monday, there was a debate, on whether
Igor Volsky reports James Capretta as saying, Can you imagine … a more colossal waste of money, then to just say to a certain group
A Comparison of Observational Studies and Randomized, Controlled Trials, by Kjell Benson and Arthur J. Hartz For many years it has been claimed that observational
I saw this over at Sullivan’s blog: In the dark bars up there are the number of drinks the college students thought they would have
A number of you are emailing me about the Politico article on low-cost health care plans: Part of the health care overhaul due to kick
Chris Fleming has posted a reading list of Health Affairs articles on accountable care organizations (ACOs). Could be a useful reference.
