Daniel Callahan with an interesting essay searching for a practical meaning of the phrase ‘value for money’ in health care, and wondering whether we can
Ezra Klein and Tyler Cowen have both posted today on ways to think about Medicare reform. I think both dance around an idea without explicitly
I’m getting a lot of email asking me (or one of us) to post on Rep. Paul Ryan’s plans for Medicare and Medicaid. You may
Doug Elmendorf, Director of CBO gave a speech this morning to the World Health Congress on the challenges of restraining federal health spending. He didn’t
Krugman weighs in, 1. Privatizing and voucherizing Medicare does nothing whatsoever to control costs. We’ve seen that from the sorry history of Medicare Advantage. I’m
If newspaper stories written 10 years from now say something like “the Medicare program is continuing its slow move away from fee-for-service payment that rewards
I know I’ve been bad about posting all of these, but I’ll try harder. I was on Sound Medicine again this weekend: It’s been just
If you live or will be in the Boston area this Wednesday night (April 6), you might consider coming to my talk at the Melrose
In brass duets, Don Nadeau and I are Boston regional champions, so declared on March 19, 2011 in a brass competition sponsored by The Buglers
A recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine included a concise exploration by Robert Kocher and Nikhil Sahni of an ongoing trend: increasingly
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