Year: 2013

The three sentence rule works

Have I ever blogged about my three sentence rule? A quick search suggests I haven’t. Fittingly, I’ll make it snappy. When I write to someone

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Administrative costs

My post now up on the JAMA Forum is about Medicare and private insurance administrative costs. Enjoy! @afrakt

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How to use Twitter

Thinking of trying Twitter but don’t know how? See Jay Ulfelder for some strategic (as opposed to technical) advice. I don’t agree with every nuance of it

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Menu labeling with a twist

I’ve been skeptical about menu labeling, not because I think the idea is bad, but because I‘m unconvinced that it will work in practice. That

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How we tolerate risk

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we tolerate risk here in the United States, after we literally shut down a major city last week

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*Catastrophic Care*: Chapter 8

My favorite passage in chapter 8 of Goldhill’s Catastrophic Care: Whatever their own mistakes, our experts are required to try to make health care work without

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