Impact of the “like it/keep” extension likely small and self-limiting
Senior officials reported that some 1.5 million people might be eligible for the latest administrative tweak to the Affordable Care Act, an extension of the “like it/keep it” fix that would permit individuals to maintain plans that don’t meet new coverage requirements through October 2017. The move
Quote: Proposed changes to the Medicare drug benefit
The three classes of drugs — widely used antidepressants, antipsychotics and drugs that suppress the immune system to prevent the rejection of a transplanted organ — have enjoyed special “protected” status since the launch of the Medicare prescription benefit in 2006. That has meant that the private
From TPHealth: On Monday, Indian officials announced that no polio cases had been reported in the country for a third consecutive year — a major milestone for the country’s efforts to entirely eliminate a disease through mass vaccinations since the eradication of small pox in 1980. The achievement m
How journals are damaging science
Thoughtful and provocative piece over at the Guardian” I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often foll
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
Very strange Google search problem: A bleg
我从未见过Google搜索失败了，以至于：考虑此链接中的帖子。在其中找到一些关键词，甚至复制标题。然后访问Google并使用您的关键词或复制标题搜索帖子。将“网站：theincidentaleconomist.com”添加到您的搜索字词中，以指导Google绑扎。 […]非常奇怪的Google搜索问题：偶然的经济学家首次出现了一个BLEG。
I’ve been somewhat amazed at the hypocrisy that politicians can muster when it comes to health care reform. I get explicit about that in my latest piece at the JAMA forum.去看！ @aaronecarrollThe post JAMA Forum: A Tale of 2 Plans first appeared on The Incidental Economist.
是的，是的，TIE的搜索功能在某种程度上有限。但是，您不需要它。这是一个专业提示：访问Google在搜索框中输入以下内容：站点：theincidentaleconomist.com [您的搜索词]享受！这可能看起来像很多打字，但是您只需要一次键入一次即可。当您进入搜索时，Google […]帖子如何搜索领带首先出现在偶然的经济学家上。
Getting the Methods Right — The Foundation of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, by Sherine E. Gabriel and Sharon-Lise T. Normand (The New England Journal of Medicine) The Supreme Court and the Future of Medicaid, by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and Sara Rosenbaum (The New England Journal of Medicine) Va
The Evolving Roles of the Medical Journal, by Scott H. Podolsky, Jeremy A. Greene, and David S. Jones (The New England Journal of Medicine) Making the Best of Hospital Pay for Performance, by Andrew Ryan and Jan Blustein (The New England Journal of Medicine) Registered Nurse Labor Supply and the Rec
From Robert Pear and Jonathan Weisman: Republicans are dusting off proposals that date back more than a decade: allowing individuals to buy health insurance across state lines, helping small businesses band together to buy insurance, offering generous tax deductions for the purchase of individual po
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
这是我的最后一篇文章。我正在重新启动我的个人博客FreeForall或www.donaldhtaylorjr.com。 Here is an RSS feed for all the posts http://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/feed/ The twitter account @DonTaylorFFA is a bot that will only send out posts from my blog, and/or you can follow me on twitter @donaldhtaylorjr The tag line of fre
On The Record (with daily recap)
Today in TIE: Austin on guideline-driven care and geographic variability and reading list, Don with more on the Goldilocks principle, this time in the mortgage realm, Aaron with two posts on why high deductible plans likely won’t save that much money (post 1, post 2) and a personal tale of his inter
On The Record (with daily recap)
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Report and related documents (incl video) analyzing the impact of Republican Presidential Candidate policies on the deficit/debt Today in TIE: Austin on the basis of value driven health insurance and Marsha Gold’s NEJM piece on private insurance Medicare o
On The Record (with daily recap)
Kaiser: Drew Altman looks at what’s in store during 2012 Today in TIE: Don wonders who owns the MMSE and points out some good resources that can help you think about causation, while Aaron has two posts on paying for things that work: one focused on the macro level, and another on the doctor/patient
On The Record (with daily recap)
AcademyHealth, Health Policy Fellowships, apps due 1/9/12 AHRQ: Patient Centered Medical Home Resource Center CRS: Change in distribution of income among tax filers 1996-2006 Today in TIE: Farewell to Reflex: Austin reminds us of the history of premium support, Don looks at the policy big picture fo
