If Medicare is turned into a voucher program one way to save big bucks is to let its benefits erode. But that’s dodging an awful
Tim Cousounis with a thought provoking post reporting on the Palliative Care Summit held this past week at the School of Population Health at the
Don Taylor and I have kicked Howard Gleckman’s post back and forth for a day, with me feeling like I’ve got nothing to add, and
The health reform conversation has been boring me for a while. I couldn’t figure out if it was just me or if the landscape had
Swiss Experiment Shows Physicians, Consumers Want Significant Compensation To Embrace Coordinated Care, by Peter Zweifel (Health Affairs) Policy makers in several industrial countries are seeking to
From the WSJ: In 2006, Washington created a board to scrutinize the cost-effectiveness of various surgeries and treatments, known as the Health Technology Assessment program.
The bomb at the center of health services research has detonated. It’s this: patterns of diagnosis do not simply reflect patient characteristics. They are, in
Prison Terminal is a documentary about the hospice program at the Iowa State Penitentiary. Like all hospice programs, they provide interdisciplinary care to persons who
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