How to ration?
Austin Frakt October 14, 2010
[A] ban on valuing life extension presents its own ethical dilemmas. Taken literally, it means that spending resources to extend by a month the life
[A] ban on valuing life extension presents its own ethical dilemmas. Taken literally, it means that spending resources to extend by a month the life
Life expectancy as a metric is so controversial that I felt it deserved further exploration. People don’t like it because they think lots of things
First, go read Igor Volsky’s post on CMS Chief actuary Rick Foster’s letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s response letter. He says
I’m reminded how much I rely on the internet when I fail to find a concise, free, and easily accessible definition or explanation of a
If Austin’s going to ask you to help, so will I. I’d like to hear arguments against the following: Many people have told me that
Here’s another interesting figure from the American Hospital Association’s (AHA’s) Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems. I knew that the majority of surgeries used to be
Betsy Zeidman of The Milken Institute as quoted by Ezra Klein: If you look forward 10 years, of course, pensions become a much bigger problem. But not
Timothy Sandefur blogged today about the vanishing unlikelihood of a successful predatory pricing scheme: The theory goes like this: if one company cuts its prices
Truth is, I went to Princeton this past weekend not to give a lecture to undergraduates at the Woodrow Wilson School, though I did do
The following is co-authored by Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt. The WSJ has an article out today on how patients are foregoing prescription medications because
Remember my Medicaid-IV series? No? Guess what, I hardly recall it myself. So, let’s recap. Two months ago, in the first post of the series
Longtime reader of the blog, Steve, reminds me of another pervasive myth of border-crossing medicine. It’s the idea that docs are flocking from Canada in