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
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:
