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Health Care Thoughts: Recommending Brad Delong

{ Posted on Feb 20 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Brad DeLong, Health care costs, health care thoughts
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Recommending Brad Delong     When he is not snarking up a storm on his blog or educating Berkeley's young skulls full of mush Brad does some solid academic work. In concert ...Read More »

Essential Health Benefits and cost benefit analysis: can we maintain doctors’ incomes and provide decent care for all?

{ Posted on Dec 22 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, cost benefit analysis, Health care costs, Linda Beale (Tax law), medicare, Uncategorized
by Linda Beale Essential Health Benefits and cost benefit analysis: can we maintain doctors' incomes and provide decent care for all?  So we thought we had finally created a national system of health insurance that would permit near-universal coverage for essential health ...Read More »

Super Committee and GME funding

{ Posted on Oct 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, Michael Halasy, super committee, Uncategorized
By Michael HalaseySuper Committee and GME fundingSO, about that super committee. Surely you remember, the gang of 12 that was created by the showdown over the debt ceiling this summer. Well, they’re hard at work but among the ...Read More »

How to Maintain a AAA Rating

{ Posted on Aug 08 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, Uncategorized, US Rating
Via Ellie Lang, the NYT (no link, unless this works) lists thirteen (13) countries that have a AAA credit rating from S&P: Switzerland Hong Kong Sweden Germany Canada Denmark Britain Netherlands Finland Norway Austria France Australia The thing all thirteen have in common? All provide National Health Care. Read More »

McKinsey Thought-Experiment: What If They Are Correct?

{ Posted on Jun 17 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : administrative costs, All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, politics, Research, Uncategorized
I'm not going to do this with graphics (at least for now), but the finger exercise seems intuitive.Assume—against all evidence—that the "once we educated them, 30% said they would stop offering health insurance to their lowest-paid employees" study is accurate.How ...Read More »

Negotiations, Not Love Songs

{ Posted on May 25 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health insurance, healthcare spending, Uncategorized
My wife had knee surgery recently.*  One of the great things about our then-current health insurer is that they provide complete data—list price, what they negotiated, what they paid, what you owe.  Since we’re in the “doughnut hole,” I’m tracking ...Read More »

Medical Tourism, separating facts from fiction

{ Posted on Apr 22 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health insurance, healthcare spending, Uncategorized
by Michael Halasy Practicing Emergency Medicine PA, Health Policy Analyst, and Health Services ResearcherMedical Tourism, separating facts from fictionOne of the greatest myths that I hear on a somewhat regular basis, centers around the belief that the US must ...Read More »

Guest post: No Assumptions for a Change

{ Posted on Apr 14 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, medicare, Uncategorized
Guest Post From Robert Bowman, M.D. No Assumptions for a ChangeAssumptions are often incorrect and the assumptions are incredibly inaccurate in primary care and in basic health access. When one starts with the assumption of more pay, then it is ...Read More »

What Will We Tell the Doctors?

{ Posted on Apr 07 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Entrepreneurship, Health care costs, health care reform, medicaid, Uncategorized
"The practice of medicine was accepted to be a chancy way to make a living, and nobody expected a doctor to get rich, least of all the doctors themselves."  - Lewis Thomas, The Youngest Science, p. 4 (Penguin, 1995 edition, ...Read More »

Drugs, the US solution for all the pain

{ Posted on Mar 20 2011 by Divorced one like Bush }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, depression, Great Recession, Health care costs, substitution effect, Uncategorized
By: Daniel Becker   Just a little something that came across my desk. As you read it, think about the concept: War on Drugs. “In the United States, the therapeutic use of opioids has exploded as witnessed by the increased sales ...Read More »
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