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Health Care Thoughts: Here We Go Again – SGR Edition

{ Posted on Feb 21 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts
Health Care Thoughts: Here We Go Again - SGR Edition Congress has passed a ten month patch of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula by which Medicare reimburses physicians. I have lost count, but I believe that is ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Evidence Based Medicine

{ Posted on Jan 22 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, evidenced based medicine, health care reform, health care thoughts
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Evidence Based Medicine Evidence based medicine is one of the center pieces of PPACA (Obamacare) and is generally viewed as THE enlightened way to practice medicine and to direct dollars more effectively. Problem is, there ...Read More »

Uwe Reinhardt: Unifying themes for healthcare policies

{ Posted on Dec 31 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, Uncategorized
Uwe Reinhardt at Economix sums up health care policy proposals over the last decades(hat tip save the rustbelt) To describe the unifying theme running through these past variants, it is helpful to enumerate the major economic functions any ...Read More »

American v. Brazilian Healthcare, a Continuing Series

{ Posted on Dec 13 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, foreign country health, health care reform, Presimetrics, Uncategorized
by Mike KimelAmerican v. Brazilian Healthcare, a Continuing SeriesI spoke to my sister on Skype last night. She's been in Natal, in Northeastern Brazil, for the past few months. Last week, she noticed a couple small warts ...Read More »

MLR bomb…

{ Posted on Dec 08 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, medical loss ratio, MLR, PPACA, Uncategorized
There is a amazing piece in Forbes that Tim Worstall (also at Forbes) notes reporting on scary news that is misleading: I’m very confused by this piece from fellow Forbes contributor Rick Ungar. He tells us that there’s a bomb ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Accountable Care Part II

{ Posted on Oct 23 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, Uncategorized
Health Care Thoughts: Accountable Care Part II Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are the keystone of PPACA  (Obamacare) as far as restraining costs and improving quality. Early this year there was great excitement about ...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 »

"I Guess That Helps Explain How We Got into this Health Care Mess in the First Place"

{ Posted on Oct 12 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, Uncategorized
Via Rusty, Centura Health uses Xtra Normal To Explain It All to You: Read More »

Free market mechanics and healthcare…

{ Posted on Oct 02 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, free market fetishism, free markets, health care reform, health insurance, healthcare spending, Uncategorized
by Michael HalaseyFree market mechanics and healthcare…Now, I hear something all the time in my work in the health policy realm, and that is that the “free market” could lower prices. I even recently had someone approach me after I ...Read More »

Health Care Thoughts: Please do everything you can….

{ Posted on Sep 15 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care reform, health care thoughts, Uncategorized
Health Care Thoughts: Please do everything you can........ to keep mom/dad alive.Physicians and nurses often dread these conversations. Any of us who have been on the family side of this know how agonizing it can be.And I know even mentioning ...Read More »
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