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I’ve written many times on how it’s rational for wealthier countries to spend more on health care than poorer countries. I’ve even graphed GDP vs health care spending to show this relationship. In this week’s NEJM, Victor Fuchs makes a...
We’re less than a year away from the implementation of the health insurance exchanges. No one knows exactly what will happen. Massachusetts remains our best predictor, though. A new study in Health Affairs* looks at how the exchanges in Massachusetts...
I’ve heard that there are folks who think that Arkansas’s plans to move the Medicaid expansion population onto the state’s Obamacare exchange will save money. Now, it is not completely out of the question that it could, on net, save...
If I had all the time in the world, I’d read the following three, new papers in Health Affairs. But, the abstracts say enough to get the gist. In general, wellness programs have not been shown to be money savers....
So I finally got around to reading Steven Brill’s piece in Time this weekend. Yeah it took me a while, but man – why so long? I have a number of thoughts on it, although I’ll be very disappointed in...