HEALTH REFORM UPHELD

Today the Supreme Court upheld the large majority of Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., Health Reform, ObamaCare, ACA) including the individual mandate. Why was the individual mandate allowed to remain in the law?  According to Justice Ginsburg and others, it is a form of a tax. “Justice Ginsburg makes clear that the vote is 5-4 on…

Risk Adjustment: Overfitting the Model

When creating risk adjustment models to predict health care spending, many researchers aim to maximize the goodness-of-fit of the model.  Maximize the goodness of fit, however, can produce the problem of overfitting. Overfitting occurs when a model describes random error or noise instead of the underlying relationship. Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively…

Wednesday Links

Why Prices Matter: Part I, Part II. IPAB, Obama’s Super-Legislature? Debt to the unlucky. The latest fashion accessory? Does the public wan to overturn health reform? Health care spending slows. No surprise: timing matters for ER care. Hacking Healthcare.