Anecdotes ain’t our thing. Stop asking.
Aaron Carroll November 6, 2013
NOTE: This post is closed for comments. When I said I’m done, I meant it. There are time I absolutely love the blogosphere. Its ability
NOTE: This post is closed for comments. When I said I’m done, I meant it. There are time I absolutely love the blogosphere. Its ability
I’m getting a lot of tweets and emails concerning this post by Avik Roy on life expectancy. I already addressed those points. In 2010. Here’s
The most recent edition of Health Affairs contains a provocative paper by Thomas Bodenheimer and Mark Smith; it opens by imploring we halt our reliance on
On Monday, I mused about whether employers would risk-rate their health insurance offers if they could. I concluded that the answer was “no” due to
So you ended up XY instead of XX. Get over yourself. Even conservatives generally stipulate that insurance should protect people from the financial consequences of
Don’t you wish you knew more about people signing up for insurance on the exchanges? Your wish is my command, over at the AcademyHealth blog.
Expect little blogging from me today. My town’s school system is closed, but my wife’s business is open. It’s up to me to keep the
I’m currently in Chicago, because I will be giving a talk in the Davis Lecture Series at the School of Social Service Administration at the University
The US has significantly cut spending on health research and public health. The sequestration legislation requires that we continue to cut it. Yet there are
Last week, Adrianna asked why we don’t see many complaints about the fact that employer-sponsored health insurance is community rated even though there is great
A clarification of policy from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius suggests hospitals can help uninsured patients pay for private insurance through the new insurance exchanges without violating the
This is the percent of people ages 18 to 64 in the United States ever diagnosed with diabetes, by region of origin and ethnicity or race, 2009-2011 (page