In search of the swing voter
Austin Frakt October 16, 2012
The Huffington Post poll tracking chart that Kevin Drum posted looked like a cave to me. Somewhere in there is the elusive swing voter. I just
The Huffington Post poll tracking chart that Kevin Drum posted looked like a cave to me. Somewhere in there is the elusive swing voter. I just
Yesterday, I wrote about how the conservative Boston Herald attacked Obama for allegedly loosening compounding drug rules. The claim failed the truth test. I praised
Aaron and I take up the pro-Medicaid expansion side of the latest point/counter-point in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Joe Antos represents the con
Back during primary season, I got a little hot and bothered when some candidates made some crazy claims about the HPV vaccine. Those claims were,
The most common cost-moderation strategy pursued by employers in recent years has centered on consumer cost sharing: 41 percent of large employers now offer high-deductible
Across many studies, one factor is consistently indicated as a leading cause of health spending growth: technology. Knowing that is useful but not satisfying. One wants
Peter Bach, Leonard Saltz, and Robert Wittes write in an NYT op-ed, At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, we recently made a decision that should have been
I wrote last week about another study that fed my skepticism that we can greatly improve care through quality markers. A number of you pushed
I almost didn’t respond to the reporter from the Boston Herald, because the paper has a reputation for molding facts to fit its ideology. But
This is a TIE-U post associated with Karoline Mortensen’s Introduction to Health Systems (UMD’s HLSA 601, Fall 2012). For other posts in this series, see the course intro. As a
Moderating a panel yesterday at the University of Chicago Law School, I had occasion to read a fantastic paper by Cebul, Rebitzer, Taylor, and Votruba