Kaiser: Issue brief on online applications for Medicaid/CHIP WCAI: Facing Alzheimer’s: The Caregiver’s Challenge (multi part series; follow links) RWJF NewPublicHealth: Q & A w/
This is a FAQ entry. See the main FAQ index for others. There are many posts on cost shifting. Here’s one focused on physicians. In general, physicians do
Busy SCOTUS day for FDA types – the generic drug label pre-emption case is also out (Pliva v. Mensing), with a fractured 5-4 case pre-empting
Tim Carmody explains: How journalists communicate has been radically changed by the Internet. Is it time for the academic world to catch up? Today, the
This is an ongoing series on health care system “memes” that continue to permeate our debate, even when evidence shows them to be false. The introductory post
SCOTUS struck down Vermont’s prescription privacy law this morning, 6-3. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the conservatives plus Justice Sotomayor. (Prior TIE coverage
This is a FAQ entry. See the main FAQ index for others. There are many posts on cost shifting, one focused on that by the pharmaceutical industry.
Len Burman reminds us that the reality of the merging of the retirement of the baby boomers with the overall health care cost problem in
The RWJF has released a report documenting the change in emloyer sponsored health insurance coverage across the US: A report from the State Health Access Data
Howard Gleckman puts forward six ideas for Social Security reform. Create a respectable minimum benefit for low-income workers, increase some widows’ benefits, and create an
“An Economic History of Medicare Part C,” a new paper in The Milbank Quarterly by McGuire, Newhouse, and Sinaiko, is a tasty smorgasbord of background on
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