Month: December 2011

We’re #1?

From Healthwatch: Politicians love to claim the U.S. has “the best healthcare system in the world,” though experts argue otherwise. But a new index that

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Words fail, mandate edition

I swear, I’m not picking on Senator Santorum. But I can’t let this one go by without posting. Evidently, he was recently speaking in New

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Smoking the First Amendment

Over at NEJM, my perspective piece on Tobacco and the First Amendment went online last night.  In a pair of federal lawsuits, most of the

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Reflex: December 8, 2011

HHS to release more information about individual doctors, reports John Carryrou. “Under the new rules, the agency is allowing a new category of organizations to

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Plan C?

It seems odd to not comment on yesterday’s decision by the administration to veto the FDA’s ruling to allow all girls of childbearing age to

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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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