Why Are There Disparities In Health Care? Because It’s Free.
The latest issue of Health Affairs is devoted to racial and ethnic disparities in the consumption of health care. Naturally, they found some. Why are they there? The latest issue…
How Pay-For-Performance Can Backfire
From Health Affairs by Aaron Carroll: From Health Affairs by Aaron Carroll: One of the ways you can have really good stats is to treat healthier people in general…. Wealthy…
HealthCare Social Media Trolls and Customer Unlikes
I came across a couple of blog posts that address some of the more uncomfortable social media issues, so this post goes along with my firm belief that we should…
Hoping for a Huntsman Surge –at Least to Up the Quality of the GOP HealthCare Debate
I’ll concede right upfront that I’m one of those Massachusetts liberals certain Republicans love to rail against. Ivy league educated (at least for trade school), in favor of progressive taxation…
How Can IT Facilitate Information Therapy?
The end customer in the business of Medicine needs information. The end customer in the business of Medicine needs information. Everyday technology adds new ways in which we store and…
IPAB, PSA Testing – The Lies Continue
Aside from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sparring over Romneycare and the million children without health insurance in the Lone Star State, there were only…
Indiana Seeks Exemption from Key ACA Provision
From the Did You Know category today: the state of Indiana is challenging a key provision of the ACA having to do with the medical loss ratio for insurers. That’s…
Who’s Gonna Put a Ding in the HealthCare Universe?
I’ll try not to turn this into yet another Steve Jobs centered blog post, but I am interested in his self-professed ambition to ‘put a ding in the universe’, in…
Observations on the PSA Testing Debate
Much has and will be written on the new US Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recommendations against routine use of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test in healthy men…
Myth Busters #11: Mandated Benefits
As I said in my last “Myth Busters” post, the health policy community came to view risk pools as being a big pool of money to be allocated according to…
