Once again, I agree with Jared Bernstein. [I]f people want (demand) a particular quantity of something, whether it’s an insurance package or a Snickers, they
Senate Finance Committee: Seven Republican Senators call for withdrawal of #ACO regs in letter to Sec. Sebelius House Appropriations Committee: Committee report on the suballocation
I wrote about a cost sharing research review paper by Katherine Swartz earlier today. Another one is out, by Katherine Baicker and Dana Goldman. Like Swartz’s
Proposals to reform the health insurance side of our health care system usually involve a shift of the risk from insurers (public or private) to
Anyone who cares about this is probably already following @IncidentalEcon, the blog’s Twitter feed.* I also have another Twitter account, @afrakt, that was dormant for
Austin posted on the political impossibility of Medicare payment rates being far below those of private insurance. John Goodman writes in the comments to Austin’s
I posted about a Fuchs and Milstein article in which they suggested physicians were the key to speeding up the diffusion of cost/comparative-effective care. Aaron
The only people in the USA with a constitutional right to health care? Prisoners
Jared Bernstein is well worth following. His latest post, which I recommend reading in full, shows why. [T]he IPAB is a mechanism to control the cost
Austin has a post up this morning discussing a Victor Fuchs and Arnold Milstein NEJM Commentary from last week. As he notes, it’s a long critique,
In The New England Journal of Medicine last week, Victor Fuchs and Arnold Milstein ask why cost effective care has been so slow to diffuse.
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