It’s become popular these days to blog on how Social Security is or is not like a Ponzi scheme. I hope readers understand what’s going
The 4th Circuit Liberty University opinion is out, and the 2-1 majority found the individual mandate to be a tax for the purposes of the
CBO: Monthly budget review FY 2011 GAO: TANF: Update on Families Served and Work Participation GAO: Environmental Health: Action Needed to Sustain Agencies’ Collaboration on
There’s a new manuscript in Health Affairs on the higher fees paid to US physicians compared to other countries. Let’s work through the abstract: Higher
On Tuesday, I posted on 3 studies in The Lancet on 9/11 health issues from survivors at the WTC. Quick summary: 9/11 rescue and recovery workers
I have written about my worries that exclusion criteria for randomized control trials (RCT) limit their representativeness. Similarly, I have been worried about the “optics”
The House Ways and Means Committee has some deficit-cutting suggestions for the supercommittee. At the end of this post I add up what they’re proposing
America’s broken health system: number of underinsured up and health costs consuming nearly all income gains. Rich Daly (Modern Healthcare) reports that a new study in
There are around 19 million disabled persons between the ages of 18 and 64 in the U.S. (6.4% of all persons in this age range),
This is a follow up to my first post on the recent paper on competitive bidding in Medicare by Coulam, Feldman, and Dowd. I presume
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