Quote: Retail clinic use continues to grow
Aaron Carroll November 8, 2013
The proportion of American families who reported using a retail clinic in the previous year nearly tripled between 2007 and 2010, increasing from 1 percent
The proportion of American families who reported using a retail clinic in the previous year nearly tripled between 2007 and 2010, increasing from 1 percent
Not without some hedging, Ross Douthat suggested the possibility that a conservative reform might be less disruptive to insurance coverage and markets than the Affordable
There’s a chart from Jonathan Gruber that’s been making the rounds; most recently Ezra Klein featured it as one of “seven reasons Obamacare isn’t facing
New in JAMA: Importance The effect of surgeons’ disrupted sleep on patient outcomes is not clearly defined. Objective To assess if surgeons operating the night before have
In Medical Care, Yu-Chu Shen and Vivian Wu have published a nice study of the effect on patient outcomes of Medicare hospital payment reductions. They
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Law. A couple of weeks ago, I fielded a question about whether the
Ankur Pandya, Thomas A. Gaziano, Milton C. Weinstein, and David Cutler in Health Affairs: …continued improvements in cardiovascular disease treatment and declining smoking rates will
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