Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Gooznews: Whether to save money be reducing prices or quantity. Do new drugs decrease health spending? Do new cancer drugs and imaging techniques reduce mortality? Preventive care’s true cost. Wooing half-hearted terrorists. Does it matter if you eat your fruits and veggies?
Which countries are the most capitalist and most communist. Private healthcare in Spain. Medicare sanctions Aetna’s Part D plan. Test for chlamydia after every new sexual partner. Faith-based health insurance. VA invests more in EHR than private sector.
The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up at Political Calculations. This edition of the CoR even uses an innovative bond-style rating systems to assist readers (the Healthcare Economist post received a Aa2 rating). Here are some additional links: Does WIC improve infant health? Can life sciences replace the car industry in Michigan?…
Media cancer coverage ignores end-of-life hospice care option. Cost of hospital-acquired infections: $8 billion/year. Healthcare around the world. Markets Make People Fairer. To improve life expectancy, don’t focus on expanding insurance coverage. Hospitals, Medicaid Managed-Care Stocks Rise On Health Vote. Explaining Muslim longevity in India.
Here’s the full transcript of the signing ceremony. NPR describes some of the reactions across the U.S. Below, I have put together some links describing the international coverage of the signing. BBC: “Landmark” health care bill. El País: “La victoria de Obama” Times of London: Republicans begin fight for repeal. Le Monde: “une victoire historique”…
Today, Sunday, March 21, 2010, the House passed the health care bill. This is a historic day…whether for good or for bad depends on your point of view. Some of my previous posts on health reform can be found here, here, here, here and many other places. My basic opinion was that health reform is…
Health tourism in Germany & hospital privatization in Poland. Private insurer’s enrollee turnover makes preventive care a poor investment. Don’t blame the insurance companies. Tyler Cowen on Managed Care. The ‘12 cent problem.’ No change in the share of Medicare costs for end-of-life care. The medicalization of life.
Russell Hutchinson presents the 100th edition of the Cavalcade of Risk. Here are some other links of interest German Ministry of Health considers a 20-30% cut in hospital beds. Best and worst health reform ideas according to a libertarian. The median salary change for faculty members in 2009-10 was 0 percent. Should nurses be able…
Today, we’ll start today off with some humor: Graphic on drug commercials. And then move on to more serious issues: How healthy is your county? Health reform in Bulgaria. 2009 Medical Weblog Awards. The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. The chicken and the egg: cost control or coverage? Nicole Kidman‘s pre-existing conditions.
“We are not cutting Medicare benefits. We are trying to eliminate waste.” Vice President Joe Biden, 25 February 2010. “Our country’s too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once.” Senator Lamar Alexander, 25 February 2010.…