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Tort Reform Shmort Reform
One of the problems in discussing tort reform is that there seems to be a lack of agreement on what we are trying to accomplish. Evaluating the success, or lack thereof, of tort reform varies depending...
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A Tribute to My Sister
”[E]nd of life is where a huge chunk of our health care dollars are spent. We could probably take a big chunk out of our deficit if we made inroads there even if we left the rest of health care alone.”...
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Health Care Headlines
I wanted to put this post up last week, but got distracted by work and my one month old son (he’s great by the way). So some of this is a week or two old and I don’t have much time to add a bunch of...
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NOT ENOUGH MDs
We here have been educated to understand the supply problem in American health care, thanks to NoVAH, Mike, and Michigoose, although many, if not all, of us understood the general outlines of this...
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Faux Health Care Update
Better publish this before I forget. Bunch of links from the NEJM on Medicare reform. On the whole, we do not believe that the recent slowdown in Medicare spending growth is a fluke. There has been a...
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Bartlett on Health Care in the Financial Times
Lapsed R Bruce Bartlett says government can do it better. Hmmm. America The folly at the heart of the US healthcare debate America is the only developed country that does not offer some form of...
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Medicare Trustees Report
Here’s all you need to know about the 2012 Medicare Trustees Report, which was “released” in the sense that press releases have been issued and talking points have been distributed. Have not seen the...
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Faux health care report
Just a couple of quick links from the NEJM about electronic medical records and the difficulty doctors are having with implementation. Perhaps NoVA can help out and give a his perspective as well. Even...
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What’s Next
The PPACA extends the current system to more people to increase coverage, but doesn’t fundamentally reform health care at the delivery level. As such, it will not succeed in bending the cost curve to...
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Sunday Open Thread
76,000 qualified nursing school applicants were turned away in the last 12 months. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/03/156213925/nursing-schools-brace-for-faculty-shortage My advice: don’t...
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Not Your Ordinary Marketplace
http://tinyurl.com/m4qjapm Some takeaways: Whether directly from their wallets or through insurance policies, Americans pay much more for almost every interaction with the medical system. High prices...
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In the News Now
Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation There was a lot of internet chatter about the above “GOP for a New Generation” report today. Out of curiosity I decided to read it. It was really...
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Open Thread Plus Bites & Pieces
I’m still catching up from last week’s news and propaganda but I did read a couple of pieces that I thought were pretty interesting. This was from the AP Friday. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Abortion is still...
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Free Riders
WalMart, arguably the largest employer in the United States, is frequently the target of criticism for its parsimonious pay and benefits package. And they know it. In a smoking gun type memo from 2005,...
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Copied Without Permission from the WSJ
By JEFFREY A. SINGER Every so often I have an extraordinary and surprising experience with a patient—the kind that makes us both say, “Wow, we’ve learned something from this.” One such moment occurred...
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