Healthcare vs health care vs health-care

If you read this blog, you know where I stand on this important issue. According to Google, the good guys are still winning, but the trend is worrisome. I’m happy to see the ridiculous “health-care” falling away.

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Google’s stats don’t extend beyond 2008, so we’re missing the big health reform build up. The past may not be a perfect predictor of recent use.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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