A little lost amid the din of President Obama’s administrative fix was an op-ed by Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin setting forward a “conservative alternative”
The 56% of U.S. adults who now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage continues to
Longtime reader of the blog writes (slightly edited): The author of the comment cites calibration as the problem–different data set from which rule derived, etc.
We’ve discussed the potential overuse of mammograms before. We’ve discussed how diagnosis has increased without comparable reductions in mortality. Now we get to talk about
TIE readers are amazing. One writes me, but asks to remain anonymous: The cholesterol guidelines are part of a move towards risk-based prevention of CVD
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Law. I speculated last week about the legal basis for the
From the NYT: Last week, the nation’s leading heart organizations released a sweeping new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along with an online calculator meant to help
From the Journal of Pediatrics: Objective To describe pediatric primary care providers’ attitudes toward retail clinics and their experiences of retail clinics use by their
[T]he practical reality is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), despite heroic efforts, cannot accurately measure any physician’s overall value, now or
Healthcare Triage #4 is up. What’s Healthcare Triage? Glad you asked: Healthcare Triage is a series about healthcare. Dr. Aaron Carroll will explain healthcare policy, medical
Effects of Physician-Directed Pharmaceutical Promotion on Prescription Behaviors: Longitudinal Evidence by Anusua Datta and Dhaval M. Dave (National Bureau of Economic Research) Spending on prescription
Friend of the blog Paul Kelleher has been getting a pop-up ad, shown below, when he browses to TIE and only to TIE. The problem
