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Kate Steadman’s Healthy Policy blog is hosting the Health Wonk Review #3 for this week. The HWR distills two weeks of health policy blogging to bring readers the best of the best. Topics include: Reform: Whatâs the definition of âisâ? edition Changes are Aâ Comin Medicine and Health Policy From the Unbeaten Health Blogosphere Path…
The NCAA Men’s basketball tournament is almost upon us. Time to fill out your brackets and cheer for your favorite teams. I have filled out my bracket, but as an economist, I can’t do this as any normal person would. I have used some quantitiative measures in order to rank the teams. The teams are…
I would like to thank Joseph Paduda for his kind words on March 2nd. Principal of Health Strategy Associates, Mr. Paduda cited my Medicare timeline and stated: “Jason Shafrin at Healthcare-Economist.com has provided a brief timeline of the development of Medicare in the US. Jason’s blog is quite good; heavy on the policy side (no…
DB’s Medical Rants blog has a variety of entertaing medical cartoons. Enjoy!
This Sunday, the San Diego Union Tribune (“A wealth of talent“) wrote a complimentary article regarding the ascendancy of UCSD’s Economics department into the elite strata of economics departments. Last year, U.S. News and World Report ranked the UCSD economics department #10 in the nation. As a graduate student in UCSD’s economics department, my ‘unbiased’ opinion is…
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