Yesterday, Austin highlighted a paper that said competition might not increase quality. Here’s another paper that goes even further. “Quality and Equity of Care in
Yesterday, I despaired for science. Here’s something that made me feel better. It’s a paper by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, entitled, “Lead Policy and Academic Performance:
A reader asked why I’m blogging so much lately. The answer is, sometimes I need to read a lot of papers in a subject area
One of the latest charges against Obamacare is that its cuts to Medicare will harm quality. There is some reason to be concerned about that.
I wasn’t planning to comment on this one, but CNN asked. Go read, share, RT, like! @aaronecarroll
Maggie Mahar offers a handy list in a September 2011 report (h/t Bill Corfield). The following is, more-or-less quoted from pages 4-6 of the report
What are some of the potential effects of vertical integration or, more broadly, “restraints,” between a health care plan and a health care provider? In
I spent 10 or so minutes on WLNI’s The Morning Line this morning talking about Medicare. I said nothing that close readers of this blog
Last week, I noted the significant differences between Paul Ryan’s proposals, from his 2012 budget to Ryan-Wyden to his 2013 budget. I also noted that
Commenter “DreadGazebo”, a public finance economist, put some real numbers to my (not) double counting in Fraktopia sketch. His chart is to scale. Notes: This
The JAMA paper by Song, Cutler, and Chernew on the consequences of a Wyden-Ryan type premium support plan is getting a lot of attention. However,
I posted earlier on quality ratings of Medicare Advantage plans and on whether financial incentives work in health care. Let’s see if I can tie those
