Day: June 14, 2011

MA health prices up in 2009

Bad news from this week’s MA DHCFP Report.  While total costs reflect changes in volume, service mix and unit prices, the primary driver in 2009

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On The Record

Commonwealth: Issue brief on pre-existing condition plans in the ACA GAO: Disability Insurance: Preliminary Observations on SSA Efforts to Detect… KHN: Republican Presidential debate excerpts

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The ACA is underappreciated

Even conservatives could get something they like starting from the ACA. There are just so many possible directions policy can go with the ACA as

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Grand bargains and Medicare

Ezra Klein following up on Marc Goldwein’s defense of slowly raising the Medicare age to 67 from 65. As Austin and Aaron wrote in response

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Warts make me crazy

It’s funny how the dysfunctions of the health care system and the uncertainty of science can be reflected in the tiniest things. Like a wart.

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A note on McKinsey and methods

I was going to answer this in comments, but it’s too important. The recent arguments against accepting the results of the McKinsey survey on the

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Doctors as martyrs

There was an op-ed in the NYT over the weekend, written by an anesthesiologist, that I’ve been grappling with for days. Every time I sat

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