CBO: Private Insurers Better at Expenditure Growth Control than Medicare, Medicaid
Advocates for government run health care assert that it does a better job of cost control than private insurers. Here are some data from a 2007 Congressional Budget office report…
Health Care Buzz Today
NIH to Create Genetic Test Database. Hoping to improve healthcare research and centralize data, the National Institutes of Health plans to create an online database of more than 2,000 available…
The 15 Most-Watched Medical-Device Stocks
Interesting, although not particularly surprising (from Motley Fool). Interesting, although not particularly surprising (from Motley Fool).
Community Health Centers: Not Just a “Safety Net”
What do you think when you hear the term “safety net provider?” It doesn’t make a very positive brand impression, does it? Trapeze artists are glad that there’s a safety…
Not One War on Cancer, Millions
You have heard it countless times, “The War on Cancer.” President Nixon announced it. The National Cancer Institute has spearheaded what TV and radio commercials always talk about as “the…
More On Why There Are Drug Shortages
See our previous posts here and here. This is Zeke Emanuel, writing in the New York Times: The Problem: Right now cancer care is being rationed in the United States……
Growth of Worldwide Cervical Artificial Disc Market
In spine surgery, one of the fastest growing medical technology market segments is cervical artificial discs. On a global basis, sales will grow at a double digit annual rate, but…
When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong–Facebook Profile is Hardly a Reliable Source For Making Critical Decisions
This is an article from MIT and basically some high tech hackers went to work with piecing together “mined” data and as you can read below it was not always…
The Time Bomb No One Is Talking About
While the United States spends much more per capita on health care than other high-income countries, the share of Americans receiving long-term care is quite low compared to many other…
Giving Interns More Sleep is Not Making Hospitals Safer
The Latest: Last month something extraordinary happened at teaching hospitals around the country: Young interns worked for 16 hours straight — and then they went home to sleep. After decades…
