Month: October 2010

Follow the links

File this under, “How to read this blog” and “How to prepare to critique someone’s work.” Aaron and I reference a lot of academic papers

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What Judge Vinson Didn’t Say

It would be easy to construe Judge Vinson’s decision allowing the challenge to health care reform in Florida to proceed as bolstering the claim that

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On descriptive evidence

As a prelude to Aaron’s upcoming series on health care quality (begins Monday), I want to come back to something I wrote in August about descriptive

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Medicaid-IV summary

I’ve found, read, and reviewed six papers in my Medicaid-IV series. These are ones that met my criteria for sound methodology for estimating the causal effect

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The Hispanic Paradox

When we discuss life expectancy, inevitably someone tries to explain away our sup-optimal performance by pointing to our demographics, specifically with respect to race.  “We’re

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Medicaid vs. private plans

Medicaid is not bad for health. I’ll come back to that point later today. For the moment, see how it matches up against private plans

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