Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Blogger Disclosure Rules. [Don’t worry, the Healthcare Economist does not take any money for endorsements.] Broadway weighs in on health care. Switzerland: universal coverage with private, not-for-profit health insurance companies. $6.6 billion pharmaceutical deal. Problem with many P4P measures: small sample size.
Jacob Hacker thinks Co-ops have “have little chance of offering the broad choice of providers and portable, standardized, nation-spanning coverage that a national public plan offers.” Health Care is a right: An Interpretation through Dance. Rules for Re-writing. HMOs can reduce defensive medicine without tort reform. PPOs cannot. Tort reform may not be cost effective.
Monday Links: Economists solve an age-old economics problem: toilet seat up or down? Is Sweden is more capitalist than the U.S.? Is $100 million proton beam radiation therapy technology worth the money? Anti-depressants reduce crime? Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust. He needs to review the many resources available at the Holocaust Education Resource Center‘s new website.…
Some links for you to enjoy over the weekend. The public plan will cost the same as private plans. How to get your economics article published? Make it complicated. How much does your healthcare reform bill cost? Opening the Health Insurance Exchange to all. Measuring (healthcare) consumer confidence. President Obama promised to make it illegal for…
We don’t need a public option. We do need a public option. The anti-savings account: 0.2% interest rate, 0.3% expense ratio. The deadliest child killer is… Is capitation the way to go? Look to California’s experience.
Private sector medical care in Europe: clinics in Belgium and nursing homes in Sweden. Wait Lists in the U.S.: Medicaid managed care organizations (MCO) Mexico’s public plan. Should the UK’s NHS look more like France? Supplier-induced demand in China.
How to cure Hepatitis: Ban it. An Oxymoron or: How to cut health care cost using mandatory volunteering. Taking a cigarette break at work. Death to the Public Plan! Viva Co-ops? A bureaucrat is already rationing your health care.
Here’s some exciting content to take you into the weekend: Quote of the Day “Yes, we could well cover tens of millions more people and that alone would be a noble accomplishment. But just loading all of these people onto a system that we can’t now afford seems to me to be ultimately a fool’s…
The minimum wage will increase from $6.55 to $7.25 next month. David Neumark thinks writes that we should delay the minimum wage increase. I agree. Innovation in baseball ticket pricing. Best cities to live in as ranked by The Economist or median house price to median income ratio. Solving health care with a public plan co-op. Tyler…
Health Plan CEO Compensation. How to produce drugs for developing nations. Obesity…not as bad as previously thought. “Overweight or obese had fewer complications and a lower 1-year mortality than those who were thin or of normal weight.” Sotomayor: Supreme Court nominee, diabetic. The Packers new 3-4 defense. Barça ganó el Champions. My favorite news magazine…