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Primary Care Physicians Can Greatly Reduce The Costs Of Care, Especially For Chronic Diseases
In an earlier post I described the problem of excessive and inappropriate…
Global Handwashing Day: Support Global Handwashing
I have always been interested in the power of preventions rather than…
Why Are There Disparities In Health Care? Because It’s Free.
The latest issue of Health Affairs is devoted to racial and ethnic…
How Pay-For-Performance Can Backfire
From Health Affairs by Aaron Carroll: From Health Affairs by Aaron Carroll:…
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…
IPAB, PSA Testing – The Lies Continue
Aside from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney…
Indiana Seeks Exemption from Key ACA Provision
From the Did You Know category today: the state of Indiana is…
Who’s Gonna Put a Ding in the HealthCare Universe?
I’ll try not to turn this into yet another Steve Jobs centered…
Observations on the PSA Testing Debate
Much has and will be written on the new US Preventive Services…
Myth Busters #11: Mandated Benefits
As I said in my last “Myth Busters” post, the health policy…