Day: February 5, 2014

CNN: Obamacare is not “job-killing”

Aaron Carroll February 5, 2014

There’s been a lot of talk decrying the ACA as job-killing because of the recent CBO report. That wasn’t true before, and it’s not true

AcademyHealth: Randomized controlled trials are not all that matters

Aaron Carroll February 5, 2014

Gina Kolata had a recent piece in the NYT that took the CMS Innovation Center to task for not relying on randomized controlled trials more.

What policymakers say they need to know about Medicare

Austin Frakt February 5, 2014

In my experience, it’s a rare health economist or health services researcher who doesn’t want his or her work to be relevant to policymakers. The