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I am, and have always been, an early adopter. I have a Kindle and absolutely love it. I use it a bit less now that
Lots of wonks are linking to Ezra Klein today to discuss this: One of the dirty little secrets of the health-care system is that Medicare
The following is a guest post by Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow
Uwe Reinhardt thinks repeal of the ACA would be good. Because then you have a clean slate. You could say [to Republicans], “Okay guys, now
Ezra Klein reminds us that Medicare’s methodology for updating physician payments–the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)–is broken, but still serves a cost control role. The Medicare
Uwe Reinhardt has a post up at the NYT which he titled How Medicare Sets Hospital Prices. I can’t imagine that there is any reader
In a thought provoking post on health reform, Tyler Cowen wrote, I am less worried about mandate enforcement than I used to be; Austin Frakt
Today, consolidation in the hospital industry is recognized by some as a problem, a source of higher prices. One hundred years ago hospitals had the
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