We’re in a (health care) tight spot
Austin Frakt October 28, 2011
Earlier this week, I presented some charts and commentary to The Health Management Academy’s Treasurer Forum. All of the content of my talk has appeared
Earlier this week, I presented some charts and commentary to The Health Management Academy’s Treasurer Forum. All of the content of my talk has appeared
HCFO: Health plan concentration and consolidation GAO: Supplemental Security Income: Preliminary Observations on Children with Mental Impairments KFF: Medicaid spending and coverage policy trends, FY
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a few short, animated videos to explain some of the concepts involved in the ACA and health care
Before the recent publication by Ellen Bouchery, Henrick Harwood, Jeffrey Sacks, Carol Simon, and Robert Brewer, the economic cost of excessive use of alcohol had not been
Pauline Chen writes about teaching doctors to be mindful in today’s NYT. She reports about a conference teaching doctors to meditate. “There has been a
As we’ve discussed many times before on this blog, a large proportion of the newly insured under the Affordable Care Act will be getting Medicaid.
Interesting piece in the LA Times on the promise and pitfalls of palliative care. In the promise category, increasing evidence of palliative care effectively dealing
Mathematica: Disability Research Forum, tomorrow 10/27 MPR Wash office, 12-1:30; still can register AcademyHealth: Social Media Dissemination and Knowledge Transwer, webinar Nov. 3 1-2:30 EDT
CDC committee recommends boys receive HPV vaccine, reports Jennifer Bixler. “A federal government advisory committee voted Tuesday to recommend that males ages 11 to 21
A good friend of mine listened to a recent talk on health care reform from a well-known political figure, and was telling me about it.
A few things always come up when I teach intro to the U.S. Health Care System at Duke. One of them is a student’s dad
GAO: The Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Fall 2011 Update GAO: Health Care Price Transparency: Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain CBO: