This week we discuss the implications of raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67, something proposed by Joe Lieberman and floated by
FEMA: link to FEMA app for Hurricane information, including shelters, family info sharing GAO: Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans: Program Features, Early Enrollment and Spending Trends
Brad Flansbaum writes about the difficulty of correctly interpreting survival odds for patients and physicians. His post is based on an interesting study about framing
It sounds funny, but a huge number like $5.7 billion is actually small. It’s small when it is compared to a much larger number, like
Is Fragmented Financing Bad for Your Health? by Steven D. Pizer and John A. Gardner (Inquiry) Americans finance health care through a variety of private
Research says: Obesity is a problem, but solving it doesn’t fix our health care spending problem, just a very small step in the right direction.
New report: Three quarters of those who have lost jobs and health insurance are skipping needed medicine and health care; many struggling with medical debt.
The IOM has released a report entitled, Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality: The committee finds that evidence convincingly supports a causal relationship between some
Igor Volksy does a superb job summarizing Jaan Sidorov’s insightful post on risk transfer and health reform. In even shorter form, the cost of Medicare to the
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