On The Record (with daily recap)
Don Taylor October 31, 2011
RWJF: Sugary drink facts CBO: Discretionary spending: funding v. outlays Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin holding health care cost Q and A, Kevin on transparency
RWJF: Sugary drink facts CBO: Discretionary spending: funding v. outlays Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin holding health care cost Q and A, Kevin on transparency
The US health system has many puzzles. Here’s one: why did US spending relative to GDP diverge from that of other wealthy nations around 1980?
This was the medial myth that started it all for me, and I’m still not even close to beating it down. So I think I’ll make it
I usually do a lot of blogging for the coming week over the weekend, but I spent most of Saturday and Sunday painting my house
State Medicaid spending is skyrocketing, reports Phil Galewitz. “The end of federal stimulus spending is going to mean nothing but pain for state Medicaid programs in
The Physician Payment Sunshine Act – Title VI.A of ObamaCare (sec. 6001-6005) – requires many drug and device companies to publicly disclose many of their
Awesome, awesome article in the NYT over the weekend on whether MRIs are really useful in diagnosis. The piece describes two studies. Here’s the first:
After I posted the following chart from Charles Roehrig, readers emailed me with questions. Some I can answer. Some I cannot. The Q&A is below
It’s an irresistible comparison. At first glance, Jobs benefits enormously from the comparison. A charismatic design visionary, he built two great companies with great products.
Brad Plumer shared some interesting research on the reach of research. One bit, at the end of his post, is about work I’ve posted on
A well-done video by NEJM (15 minutes), Jack Balkin (Yale) v. Ilya Somin (George Mason) on the constitutionality of the ACA, moderated by Wendy Mariner (BU).