Day: May 9, 2011

On The Record

Council on Foreign Relations: Interview with 5 experts on effect of US deficit on international competitiveness CMS: News release w/links on implementing Value-Based Purchasing per

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What did Chernew say?

Ezra Klein begs the question with, “Here are a few more papers proposing ways to replace the SGR. I particularly recommend Michael Chernew’s contribution.” What’s the

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The blob

Do you remember the 1950’s movie The Blob? It ate everything in its path.  Health care spending is the blob that eats other social programs.

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Defending the beleaguered QALY

Peter Neumann, in JAMA, defends the beleaguered QALY. Above all, critics conflate QALYs with rationing. […] They imply that QALYs represent an absence of clinical

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Vermont’s Super MedPAC

While Washington continues to debate the federal IPAB, Vermont has now passed a much more powerful version at the state level, the Green Mountain Care

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