Off to Seattle
I will be taking a brief vacation to Seattle. Blog posting will resume on Monday. Below are two fun tours my fiancee and I took while in Seattle: Savor Seattle. Seattle Underground Tour.
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Cavalcade of Risk #60
Workers Comp Insider hosts the lastest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk.
Wal-Mart reduces obesity
Wal-Mart increases real incomes by lowering prices. The purchasing power increase makes buying fresh fruit and vegetables more affordable for the average consumer. At least this is what Charles Courtemanche and Art Carden found. HT: Marginal Revolution
Fragmented Medical Care III: Policy Options
Continuing with yesterdays theme of fixing America’s fragmented health care system, I will review some of the Commonwealth Fund’s policy suggestions to improve health care quality. Expansion of P4P. While I support P4P in theory, in practice, it will be very difficult to apply. P4P rewards only measurable components of health care quality. Since much…
Fragmented Medical Care II: The Models
Yesterday I wrote about the problems with fragmented medical care in America. Is a single payer system the only solution? A Commonwealth Fund report shows that the single payer system is not the only path towards improved, more integrated care. What we want The report outlines six general improvements that need to be made to…
Google Health on Marketplace
NPR’s Marketplace Money discusses the pros and cons of allowing Google Health to store your private medical records. [Dr. John Halamka, the Chief Information Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center]: A patient can put privacy flags on any of this record that they wish. They can not change the facts in the record however.…
Fragmented Medical Care I: America’s Problem
The U.S. healthcare system is one of the more fragmented systems in the world. Traditionally, economists believe that a splash of decentralized planning with a heap of free markets is a recipe for efficient outcomes. In the case of health care coordination, however, information sharing, and collaborative work are needed if quality is to improve…
New homepage: jasonshafrin.com
The Healthcare Economist, Jason Shafrin, has a new homepage available at jasonshafrin.com. The homepage has links to my recent drafts of my research and a brief bio. Blog posting will continue on this site.
NFL Season Begins
The NFL season began yesterday. To celebrate, here are three football related links: Football and Randomness Two quarterbacks? Six eligible receivers? An undermanned California high school football teamed use the untraditional A-11 formation to win 7 of 11 games. The key? “In a standard formation with five fixed linemen, a play can unfold with 36…
Health Wonk Review is up
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at InsureBlog. Some of my favorite articles include: Joe Paduda on Sarah Palin’s health care record in Alaska, Health Care Renewal criticizes Carilion’s vertically integrated health system. The Disease Management Care Blog looks at Emergency Physician’s “NIMBY“-like attitudes. InsureBlog discusses the Dutch health care…