On The Record (with daily recap)
Don Taylor October 4, 2011
RWJF/IOM: Strategies to prevent childhood obesity RWJF: Pioneer program CFP “Applying Behavioral Economics to Perplexing Health Care Problems”. Proposals due Nov 2 Today in TIE:
RWJF/IOM: Strategies to prevent childhood obesity RWJF: Pioneer program CFP “Applying Behavioral Economics to Perplexing Health Care Problems”. Proposals due Nov 2 Today in TIE:
I’m annoyed enough with Bank of America’s new debit card fee that I may switch banks. More on that at the end of this post.
Supercommittee grand bargain unlikely, report Manu Raju and John Bresnahan (Politico). “Senate Republicans are telling K Street that they don’t believe the powerful deficit-cutting panel can
As I noted Thursday, Rep. Paul Ryan‘s speech last week embracing the Patients’ Choice Act (PCA), completed the “replace” part of his call to “repeal
Aon Hewitt’s 2011 Health Insurance Trend Driver Survey explained something I had not considered before: “deductible leveraging.” That’s the term for a phenomenon that can cause high
RWJF/Urban: Refocusing Responsibility for Dual Eligibles, Why Medicare Should Take the Lead Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on Back to the (premium) future, and the
In a post earlier today, I discussed the evolution of health care spending growth. Below is one more chart from the Altarum Institue that illustrates
With a greater share of workers in high deductible health plans, small businesses had lower premium growth than larger firms, reports Rob Mandelbaum (NYT). “[T]he
I was prepping over the weekend for a meeting Wednesday on the economics of tobacco control and ran across this very clear brief from the
Since the release of the results of the 2011 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what drives premiums
Sand grains magnified 250 times, from Lost at E Minor. (More at the link.)