Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Which country’s citizens believe that their medical system needs a complete overhaul? According to a a study published in Health Affairs (“…Adults’ Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007“), one third of Americans believe that we need to “rebuild completely” our health care system. Minor Changes Needed Fundamental Changes Needed Rebuild Completely HC Spending per…
The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk has been posted at Julie Ferguson’s Worker’s Comp Insider.
How do we measure the financial burden of elderly obesity? At first this seems like an easy question to answer. Find the average medical spending of the obese elderly and compare that to the spending of an elderly individual of healthy weight. Yet causation is difficult to show. True, it is possible that the obese…
A Healthy Blog has an interesting post (“Stories of Harm“) giving patient video testimonies regarding their experience with medical errors and how it has impacted their life. The Consumer Health Quality Council is a group of Massachusetts patients who have been harmed by medical errors and they are calling for reform within the health care…
I recently finished reading a very satisfying book titled The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. The book looks at how London was able to solve the cholera epidemic which struck the city in the mid-nineteenth century. The book chronicles how John Snow and Henry Whitehead were able to discover that cholera is transmitted from drinking…
Bryan Caplan of EconLog has an interesting blog post on Singapore’s Health Care System. In the post, he reviews Ghesquiere’s “Singapore’s Success,” analyzing Singapore’s health care system. Harford finds that Singapore spends a third of what the U.S. does on health care (as a percentage of GDP) yet has better health indicators. Of course, much…
Many of the Democratic candidates support having employers provide insurance for their employees with the threat of a fine or tax if an employer decides not to comply. This of course will increase the cost of an employee for firms. If employees truly value the health insurance, then the cost of insurance can be passed…
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at Robert Laszewski’s Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review.
Barack Obama wins Iowa and is predicted to win New Hampshire according to Gallup polls. Then Hillary Clinton wins New Hampshire. Why were Gallup poll predictions wrong? The Statistical Modeling blog tries to make sense of this in their post “What was going on with the New Hampshire polls?” The post gives three reasons why…
So you’re a Republican and you don’t know who to vote for. Which of the Republican candidates has the best plan for health care reform? This is what I will discuss today. If you are a Democrat, please read my “Guide to the Democratic Candidates” yesterday. Similarities Almost all the Republican candidate are in agreement…