Go read Bruce Bartlett on EMTALA
Aaron Carroll October 23, 2012
The title pretty much says it all. Bruce has a piece up at the NYT in which he summarizes (and adds to) many of the
The title pretty much says it all. Bruce has a piece up at the NYT in which he summarizes (and adds to) many of the
Randy Ellis’s recent paper in the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics is titled “Five questions for health economists“. But that’s misleading, there are
A nice, short post by Robert Dittmar makes a great point in a few charts. Here’s his chart, using Bureau of Economic Analysis data, of
I’m often blown away by the fact that the posts I think are the least controversial are the ones I spend the most time discussing.
This week, John Goodman published a Wall Street Journal op-ed, here, concerned with the issue of preexisting conditions. His essay prompts me to post the
A number of companies are using their large purchasing power to negotiate for better rates for rare procedures. It’s called Centers-of-Excellence contracting. It’s the topic
Mouth, meet foot: Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) said Thursday that abortions are “absolutely” never necessary to save the lives of pregnant women. “With modern
Hey, remember way back to Tuesday when I posted on the paper I wrote with Aaron on Medicaid expansion? (If not, go read that post.)
A longtime reader of the blog pointed me to this. It’s blowing my mind. From JAMA, “Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cancer in Men The Physicians’
Chapter 18 of John Goodman’s book Priceless is the final one. It is mercifully short. As I have been throughout, I am assuming you’ve read it and all the
Surely you’ve heard that cranberry juice will prevent urinary tract infections. There are even some old studies that seem to support this belief. A new