Infant Mortality Comparison

If Austin’s going to ask you to help, so will I.  I’d like to hear arguments against the following: Many people have told me that

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Inpatient vs. outpatient surgeries

Here’s another interesting figure from the American Hospital Association’s (AHA’s) Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems. I knew that the majority of surgeries used to be

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State budgets and health care

Betsy Zeidman of The Milken Institute as quoted by Ezra Klein: If you look forward 10 years, of course, pensions become a much bigger problem. But not

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The Princeton trip

Truth is, I went to Princeton this past weekend not to give a lecture to undergraduates at the Woodrow Wilson School, though I did do

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Balking at Prescription Costs

The following is co-authored by Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt. The WSJ has an article out today on how patients are foregoing prescription medications because

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Phantoms in the snow – ctd.

Longtime reader of the blog, Steve, reminds me of another pervasive myth of border-crossing medicine.  It’s the idea that docs are flocking from Canada in

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Clinical Integration & Antitrust

That’s the title and topic of the latest edition of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle out today.  The contents include: Clinical Integration: The Balancing of Competition

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Happy 10th, Daily Dish!

Of all the things that have happened since I started blogging, this is, perhaps, one of the few of which I’m most proud: Toast Or

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Phantoms in the snow

Based on the comments I’ve seen over the last week, many of you are still going with that well used meme in the health care

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