Bonds issued by health care systems in those states may suffer: Municipal bonds sold by hospitals and health-care systems have been the market’s biggest losers
Today’s chart comes from a new Health Affairs paper by Daniel Austin and colleagues. They simulate the effect of rising employee contributions for employer-sponsored insurance
This year, about 1.6 million Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer. By 2030, cancer incidence will rise to about 2.3 million. The United States
Where are the macroeconomics or health policy versions? Internet, make that happen! @afrakt
Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash by Melissa McInerney, Jennifer Mellor, and Lauren Hersch Nicholas (Journal of Health Economics) Do
From today’s Wonkbook preamble: Obamacare’s first year will be full of glitches and hiccups and mistakes and misfires. That’s true for every big, complicated law (remember
In unsurprising news, party ideology is associated with views on Obamacare. Are these evidence-based views? Most likely not. Thus, at one level—a very individualistic one—it
Those are the questions that Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Holmes, and Jonathan Skinner tackle in a new paper that you should read in full: Is This Time
I am a frequent guest on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, which airs on Sirius/XM radio, channel 104 from 6-9AM Eastern. It immediately replays on the channel, so
Among the unsurprising and uninspired provisions in yesterday’s ACA “replacement” proposal, you’ll find a predictable nod to tort reform as a means of spending control. Let’s
In The New York Times yesterday: Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-dominated Legislature have made it more difficult for Floridians to obtain the cheapest insurance
Yesterday I wrote about a study of emergency department visits within 30 days of a surgical procedure. Last night NEJM published a study, by Thomas
