Here’s another chart from the JAMA study “The Anatomy of Health Care in the United States“: From it, we can compute average health spending by age, in 2004. I’ve shown that below alongside an estimate of what that spending is today, assuming 2.5% growth per year since 2004, which seems at least roug
Effects of Physician-Directed Pharmaceutical Promotion on Prescription Behaviors: Longitudinal Evidence by Anusua Datta and Dhaval M. Dave (National Bureau of Economic Research) Spending on prescription drugs (Rx) represents one of the fastest growing components of U.S. healthcare spending, and has
From Aspirin, Angioplasty, and Proton Beam Therapy: The Economics of Smarter Health Care Spending by Baicker and Chandra: There is also a substantial literature at the provider level showing that practice pattern norms drive similar care for all of the patients that a provider sees, regardless of in
Kaiser: Webcast Noon 12/7 EST CMS estimates of state-by-state health spending CBO: Spending patterns for prescription drugs under Medicare part D Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin parses moral hazard, Dr. Rorschach brings a chart and Don says Medicare is simple while Austin says it is complicated, Don no
在昨天的NEJM中，萨拉·罗森鲍姆（Sara Rosenbaum）讨论了最近在最高法院（Douglas诉S. California Independent Living Center诉Independent Living Center）辩称的加利福尼亚医疗补助案。凯文（Kevin）的评论：罗森鲍姆（Rosenbaum）教授清楚地讨论了允许对这些决定进行司法审查的原因（此处的领带报道），但是由于CMS已批准了[…] Reflex：2011年11月10日首次出现在偶然的经济学家上，因此整个诉讼可能会被驳回。
On The Record (with daily recap)
Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin takes another look at Romney’s reform ideas, and reviews the inconsistent way we worry about exchanges depending upon the age of the patients involved, Don wants to get the language straight on palliative care, and discusses the first lawsuit for not following a POLST fo
On The Record (with daily recap)
HCFO: Health plan concentration and consolidation GAO: Supplemental Security Income: Preliminary Observations on Children with Mental Impairments KFF: Medicaid spending and coverage policy trends, FY 2011-12 Today in TIE: Reflex, Don on promise and pitfalls of palliative care, Aaron on Medicaid expa
On The Record (with daily recap)
CBO: Some Context for Thinking About Deficit Reduction: Soc Sec and Health Care CBO: Some Context for Thinking About Deficit Reduction: Other Spending RWJF: Lessons Learned: A Community’s Approach to Reducing Readmissions RWJF: The Role of Exchanges in Quality Improvement Today in TIE: Reflex, Austi
I’m not the only one who thinks the doc fix ain’t deficit reducing material
仍然对我的断言，即修复SGR并不是真正减少赤字。 David Nanther, in a very amusing Politico piece on how the super committee might lower health care spending, agrees with me: OPTION: Fix the Medicare physician payment formula What it does: Rewrites the current Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which has an enormous […]The po
President Obama’s deficit reduction plan
Can’t get much more concise than Brad DeLong: Restore high-bracket tax rates to Clinton-era levels: $1T Cut tax-expenditure spending through the tax code: $1T Cut health care spending: $0.5T Cut other mandatory spending by: $0.4T Cut security spending: $0.4T Cut non-security discretionary spending:
Why the Individual Mandate Matters, by Matthew Buettgens, Bowen Garrett, and John Holahan State MedicaidCoverage forTobacco-DependenceTreatments—United States, 2009, by SB McMenamin, HA Halpin, and M Ingram The Health Care Reform Legislation: An Overview, by Chapin White The Affordable Care Act (ACA
Robert Weisman reports in today’s Boston Globe: While the White House seems destined to spend the next two years fending off attacks on President Obama’s health care law, the administration of Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts will push forward with the next stage of health care overhaul: tryi
New barracks opens for post pets
在路易斯堡，狗和猫有了一个属于自己的新地方：宠物旅狗猫营房。新设施于上周向邮局社区开放，并接纳了第一批四足客户。军营，Pendlet 上的 04907 号建筑...
