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Can a $3 Million Prize Solve a $2.5 Billion Dollar Problem?

If a health plan could predict which patients will incur the most…

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Obama: Ryan’s Ideas Are Too Radical Unless They’re Also My Ideas

What is it about the Ryan plan that liberals find so appalling…

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Could Bypass Surgery Become a Thing of the Past?

Researchers at the University of Western Ontario, led by Dr. Geoffrey Pickering…

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Medicaid Expansion a Real Budget-Buster

Cato scholar Jagadeesh Gokhale has a new study on the effect the…

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How Does Your Hospital Compare on Hospital Acquired Conditions?

Medicare now lists how hospitals compare on eight Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACs)…

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How Safe Is Your Hospital?

Hospitals are dangerous places to be. At least if you are a…

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Can Thinking Younger Make You Live Longer?

This is from a paper by Laura M. Hsu via Robin Hanson:…

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Nurses Can Practice Medicine — Only if They Work for Government

Full post by Robin Hanson is worth reading: prevent cheaper medicine via…

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The Fatal Conceit

The legislation itself runs to 2,801 pages when the two companion bills…

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Medicare by the Numbers

Here are the five most important things you need to know about…

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