Massachusetts mandates at work

The following has been cross-posted at The New Republic’s Citizen Cohn. During debate over and since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there has

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Slaughtering the Medicare cash cow

The following has been cross-posted at The New Republic’s Citizen Cohn. The expansion of coverage expected by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

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All-payer rate setting

In his Health Affairs paper that I summarized yesterday, Joe Newhouse argued is way into advocating an all-payer rate setting regime. The argument goes like

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Starving the ACA to death

Pivoting off the Politico story on how Republicans plan to “choke” health care reform to death, Autsin Frakt has a post up which reiterates his

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The ACA’s Achilles heel

The following has been cross posted at The New Republic’s Citizen Cohn. Earlier this week Jennifer Haberkorn reported in Politico that Republicans plan to use

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The challenges of death

Atul Gawande deserves every bit of praise he receives for shining the spotlight on the ways in which our health system fails us. His latest

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“The curve will be bent”

The following has been cross posted at The New Republic’s Citizen Cohn. Earlier this week the Obama Administration released a report that described savings to

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Hello Citizen Cohn

By invitation, I’ll be cross-posting on Citizen Cohn today and tomorrow. Thanks go to Jon Cohn for inviting me. I’ve written about my appreciation for

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Programming note

Tomorrow and Thursday I’ll be guest blogging on Jon Cohn’s blog, Citizen Cohn. The way it is supposed to work is that an editor at

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Nice try NationalGrid

I receive a letter every month from NationalGrid, my electricity supplier. It includes a graph like the one below (which I think was from my

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