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Another type of SID for newborns. Longer bar hours, fewer drunk drivers? Marginal tax rates >100%? (Not) Defending Medicare Advantage? Docs: “overwhelming impulse to flee…” Is treating alcoholics profitable?
Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Another type of SID for newborns. Longer bar hours, fewer drunk drivers? Marginal tax rates >100%? (Not) Defending Medicare Advantage? Docs: “overwhelming impulse to flee…” Is treating alcoholics profitable?
Libertarian case for Medicaid. Who should you trust more: you doc or Wikipedia? Lessons from the VA. Measles cases hit record number. Big vs. small hospitals in the UK.
Doctors on demand. Get rid of the employer mandate? Healthcare M&A. Preventable deaths by State. A braille phone. Reading your therapist’s notes.
Homer Economicus. HIX 2.0. Health IT and safety net providers History of Phineas Gage. Ha Ha?
Crowd-out and retiree health insurance. Walmart and charter schools. How does Pharma set prices? Do you need a vacation? Free speech does not protect Sterling. #BringBackOurGirls!
Moore’s Law in healthcare. Retiree health insurance and early retirement. Knowing how to work the system. Deal or No Deal. Is the toilet free?
Suicide and cancer treatment. Hospital consolidation in France. Mini CoR. Exchanges doing just fine. Amazon and wellness.
California Medicaid backlog: 800,000. Medicare reveals physician practice patterns to public. ACA hole for spouses. Sebelius resigns. Who is Sylvia Mathews Burwell?
Some people have March Madness. NCAA and a suitcase full of cash (not what you think) UW vs. UW-M. Other people are mad about the U.S. healthcare system. What is a “health insurance ghetto”? Is there a subsidy gap? The absurdity of US healthcare prices. How to define a “cut to Medicare”? And ending on a positive…
Do some clinical trials go unpublished? Google Glass in hospitals. ECG on your iPhone. Is NIH funding drying up? Reinventing the wheel.