Day: December 7, 2011

On The Record (with daily recap)

 GAO: Fraud Detection Systems: Centers for CMS… CMS: Health Spending by State of Residence, 1991-2009 Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin tries to explain the Medicare

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How comparative effectiveness fails

In Health Affairs, Katharine Cooper Wulff, Franklin Miller, and Steven Pearson tell the fascinating story of coverage for percutaneous vertebroplasty, the treatment of vertebral fractures

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Words fail, obesity edition

Former Senator Rick Santorum in Iowa: Santorum told the group he would cut the food stamp program, describing it as one of the fastest growing

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Reflex: November 7, 2011

Alexander Bergermakes the case for kidney markets. “[T]here aren’t nearly enough saints in the country to tackle the growing waiting list for a kidney. More

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Genome pledge

Reihan Salam with an interesting post chronicling Razib Khan’s pledge to go public with his full genome (Reihan also pledges), to help address the collective

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Explaining Medicare’s slowdown

This is a TIE-U post associated with Jonathan Oberlander’s Political Dynamics and Policy Dilemmas (UNC’s HPM 757, Fall 2011). For other posts in this series, see the course

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