Myth-busting pharma at the BMJ
Aaron Carroll August 10, 2012
There’s a piece in BMJ this week that’s likely causing some heartburn in the pharmaceutical industry. There’s very little in there that should make pharma
There’s a piece in BMJ this week that’s likely causing some heartburn in the pharmaceutical industry. There’s very little in there that should make pharma
The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions, by Craig L. Garthwaite (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy) In
A thirty-year-old uninsured woman came to the emergency department of a nonprofit hospital in a north Denver suburb, complaining of difficulty swallowing and breathing because
A lot of you wrote me yesterday about the CEO of Papa John’s announcing that the ACA would increase the price of pizza. I respond
Via an Avik Roy retweet, last night I read this from Loren Heal: https://twitter.com/lheal/status/233333214301798400 My pithy reply deserves some follow-up. https://twitter.com/afrakt/status/233335077512302592 I really don’t mean
I liked Atul Gawande’s recent New Yorker piece very much. In my view, he has a laudable vision. But I still have a few doubts
I still have trouble believing the constant amazement at the fact that doctors are human. Sarah Kliff writes this morning on the new study showing
The Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is a mess on Medicaid. The Court doesn’t say exactly how the new Red
Yet another piece on how doctors won’t accept new patients with Medicaid. More specifically, another piece where doctors say they won’t take new patients with Medicaid:
A 2011 Health Services Research paper by Reschovsky et al. came up in the comments to Aaron’s post about single payer and wait times. I was unaware of
When Aaron showed this chart, readers wondered what might be done to reduce costs where it counts, for the minority of patients that account for
Madeline Levine explains in the NYT on Saturday: A loving parent is warm, willing to set limits and unwilling to breach a child’s psychological boundaries