House Budget Committee: Rep Paul Ryan’s Response to CBO report on Income inequality Today in TIE: Reflex, Don on bundled payments and nursing, Social Security
You should read Jeff Levin-Scherz’s blog. Austin’s post on Uwe Reinhardt’s rate setting paper and subsequent banter made this figure from a recent post from
More Evidence of the Association Between Hospital Market Concentration and Higher Prices and Profits, by James C. Robinson (NIHCM) In this essay, Dr. James Robinson
Today the FDA Commissioner recommends revoking the Avastin label for metastatic breast cancer. As we’ve said before, the FDA is not: Pulling Avastin from the
The proposals in the now-leaked Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement text go far beyond patents and exclusivity for drug data (delaying generics), but also
Christopher Shea writes on how to get doctors to wash their hands. Researchers monitored the contents of 66 dispensers in a hospital, before and after putting new
The Commonwealth Fund has released a report on how health insurance premiums and deductibles have changed from 2003 to 2010. It’s somewhat frightening. It turns
Howard Gleckman continues to look for ways that we might finance long term care in the wake of the demise of CLASS, and given that
A reader wrote me with the following question pertaining to competitive bidding. If an insurance company that could provide medicare for say $500 a month
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