On The Record
Don Taylor October 13, 2011
Urban: Containing growth of spending in the U.S. health care system RWJF: Reform in action: measuring physician performance and quality MEDPAC: Medicare payment overview (many
Urban: Containing growth of spending in the U.S. health care system RWJF: Reform in action: measuring physician performance and quality MEDPAC: Medicare payment overview (many
I agree with Aaron that self-insured companies will be health insurance (and wellness program) laboratories. (His two posts here and here.) They have been already.
It’s not just that we have a shortage of primary care physicians, it’s also how they’re distributed, reports the RWJF. “The maldistribution of primary care providers appears
As if on cue, Ezra Klein has a piece on how the Cleveland Clinic is doing what I wrote about earlier. He brings up a
I participated in a very interesting day-long Economics of Tobacco Regulation round table hosted by the FDA and ASPE last week in Washington, D.C. The
There are times I get pessimistic about health care reform. Policymakers pay lip service to the unsustainable spending in the health care sector, but seem
In its 2011 Report to Congress (pdf), MedPAC makes some points I made in my cost shifting paper published the same month (ungated working paper version available). The following chart, from the
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