Conundrum on waste and value in American healthcare
From Uwe E. Reinhardt in the New York Times: When economists speak of the health system as a “high average-value sector,” they have in mind an average such as the…
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Health Wonk Review – Rich and Varied Offerings
Maggie Mahar reviews other blogs on healthcare within the blogosphere Joe Paduda has hosted the newest edition of Health Wonk Review, a bi-weekly roundup of some of the best…
Oh, Stop, Matthew Yglesias. And COUNTLESS Pundits Like you.
…Matt. What liberals have always wanted was a healthcare insurance website that works the way Amazon’s does. They never really much cared whether healthcare insurance, and healthcare itself, was available…
What to Do When a High-Profile U.Chicago Economist Says the Airline, Telephone and Package-Shipping Industries Prohibit Use by Preexisting Flyers, Callers and Shippers: If you’re a liberal, take this ball and run with it!
…A man after my own heart. It’s a recognition that, with the single exception of the disastrous rollout of Healthcare.com, which is purely a technology issue, the high-profile issues concerning…
Why Attorneys Will Not Always Sue In Malpractice
…associations and the healthcare industry have focused on tort reform as one of the biggest drivers of the steadily increasing cost of providing healthcare. They point directly at greedy lawyers,…
Memo to Dems and Pundits: The disastrous healthcare.com rollout is very old news.*
Democratic operatives tell me that this basic message is, broadly speaking, how Dems will respond (where appropriate) to attacks over the law. The ad says: “Ann Kirkpatrick listens and learns….
Sooo …. which of Obama’s economic policies do you want to repeal or defeat, Repubs?? And replace those policies with whose–I mean, what–economic policies, exactly? Do tell!
…government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid are decreasing alongside the costs of private insurance. “Healthcare has long been the single biggest driver of America’s future deficits,” Obama said. “Healthcare…
Shopping Around . . .
Quite a few blogging PPACA naysayers are out there advertising the 25 to 50% increases in premiums for healthcare plans under the PPACA. Charles Gaba@ACA Signups blog points out it…
More to the Story on Killing the VHA
run75441: Ater I posted my article on the VA, it received a comment from Suzanne Gordon who writes on healthcare and has covered VA healthcare at her blog and also…
There are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 primary contest with Obama and Sanders’s primary contest now with her. Clinton doesn’t get that. But she needs to figure it out because the differences matter.
…in the drafting of the party platform. And when he endorses Clinton and then campaigns for her he will point out both that Trump’s actual fiscal-policy and healthcare policy proposals,…