Stand Up! – October 7, 2013
Aaron Carroll October 8, 2013
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
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
Andi Shane, Girish Deshpande, and Dan Merenstein bring the pain: Although our understanding of the physiological mechanisms of NEC [necrotizing enterocolitis] and its risk factors remains
This post is jointly authored by Austin Frakt and Adrianna McIntyre. In a post last week reminding readers how the individual mandate penalty works, Ezra
This is a guest post by Karan Chhabra, a medical student at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and blogger at Project Millennial. Find him
I’ve generally refrained from joining the rampant speculation about the launch—and attendant glitches—of healthcare.gov. I know my limitations: I mostly stopped toying with web development
Geographic Variation in Commercial Medical-Care Expenditures: A Framework for Decomposing Price and Utilization by Abe Dunn, Adam Shapiro, and Eli Liebman (Journal of Health Economics)
How do you turn a 1953 VW Beetle into a sphere? I have no idea. But Ichwan Noor knows how. More at the link. @afrakt
I recently explained how too many plan choices can hamper optimal decision-making. Well, so does too much information about those choices. More by me on
This morning, I was discussing with a colleague Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog takedown of the federal exchange website. He points to a “darkly amusing” Reddit thread full
Katherine Neuhausen, Michael Spivey, and Arthur Kellermann in NEJM: Currently, Medicaid DSH [Disproportionate Share Hospital program] disburses $11.5 billion annually to the states, which have considerable
Many people want to know if they are eligible for premium tax credits for marketplace (exchange) plans. I’ve been asked this question numerous times and
A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more