Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Today’s health care debate in the popular press can be boiled down to the following few points: Health Care is too expensive and we need to make it more ‘affordable,’ While reducing the price, we must maintain individual choice of which physicians they wish to see and which procedures they desire. Switching from a fee-for-service…
A recent article in Nature (“The Scaling Laws of Human Travel“) claims that the flow of money may provide a good model of how diseases spread in modern society. Previous models of how pandemics generally thought that the dispersion would occur slowly over a contiguous geographic region. As air travel becomes more and more common…
The Washington Post reports that President George W. Bush will offer âNew Tax Breaks for Medical Expensesâ? in his State of the Union speech on January 31 at 9pm ET. Part of this proposal is to make personal expenditures on health expenditures tax deductible and to expand health savings accounts. When examining the health insurance…
A handful of studies have shown that people who drink one or two glasses of wine per day generally live longer than people who do not drink or who drink beer. Does wine really increase longevity? An article on the Medpage Today website suggests that Eating Well May Explain Wine Drinkers’ Better Health. Prior studies…
Massachusetts has proposed a health care bill which four major components: Mandatory insurance for all Massachusetts residents Firms who do not offer insurance to their employees are subject to a payroll tax of: 5% for firms having between 11 and 100 employees and 7% for firms having over 100 employees. Firms employing 10 employees or…