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Don Taylor
September 16, 2011
GAO: Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of GAO Recommendations to Treasury
The Incidental Economist
the health services research blog
GAO: Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of GAO Recommendations to Treasury
In this segment, Aaron and Austin discuss the evidence on which type of insurer better controls health care costs: public or private. For more on
We’re still in full speculation mode about what deficit-cutting ideas Obama will suggest to the supercommittee (announcement expected Monday, or so I’ve been told). One
It’s a mercifully short list this week. Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans, by Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee Vermeulen,
From the Wikipedia entry for counterfactual thinking: A person may imagine how an outcome could have turned out differently, and they can reflect on how
Paul Krugman made me pause this morning with his op-ed, Free to Die. In particular, he made me remember that as we debate (even here)
115 children died from influenza-related illness between September 1, 2010, through August 31, 2011, reports the CDC in MMWR. Almost half of these children were otherwise
My 7 minute interview with NPR’s Here & Now program on the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in agriculture is available.
Setting: my office last week, talking with an undergrad in my Intro to the U.S. Health System course. Student: Have I got this straight? Everyone
The proposal to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 has legs. Earlier in the week, the Health Leadership Council, a consortium of
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