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
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Urban: addressing long term care without CLASS (video) Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin reviews private plans in Medicare, Don on the long strange trip toward consensus on premium support (maybe), the difference between cost effective and cost saving and texting patients orders is a no-no, while Kevin c
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CBO: Estimate of ARRA impact in third quarter, 2011 Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on why the ACA is not enough, and he analyzes Medicare’s decision to cover Provenge, Aaron takes a look at potential Avastin savings in Medicare, while Kevin grades the media in covering that story, while Don notes the
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GAO: VA Community Living Centers: Actions Needed to Better Manage Risks to Vets Quality of Life and Care Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Recs of Special Commission on Provider Price Reform Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on the spreading of the competitive bidding bug (TIE ground zero?), different types
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Third Way: Health Policy failsafe for the Super Committee Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin looks at Reinhard’s latest on all payer and tells the AMA not to worry about competitive bidding, while Don pans a new Medicaid federal/state cost share formula and follows up with a bit more detail, Aaron worries
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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
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GAO: The Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Fall 2011 Update GAO: Health Care Price Transparency: Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain CBO: Trends in the distribution of income Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin provides macro health care chart dump, and is hitting
A few ideas on expanding LTC insurance
Ron Lieber in Bucks blog hits the nail on the head regarding Long Term Care (LTC) policy: Pair the Class Act news with an essay in the Sunday Review section of The Times by Jane Gross on how Medicare ultimately fails so many elderly people, and you start to get a sense of the size […]The post A few
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GAO: Food Safety: FDA Needs to Reassess Its Approach to Reducing an Illness Caused by Eating Raw Oysters NIH: Success rate for grants hit all time low during FY 2011 FDA: Timeline of the Tobacco Control Act of 2009 Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin on cost savings v. cost effectiveness, Don on community
在高扣除健康计划中，小型企业的溢价增长要低，而小型公司的溢价要低。 “[T]he average premium to insure a family of four grew 9 percent, to just over $15,073. For single coverage, premiums rose 8 percent, to $5,429. But for small firms […] premiums rose […]The post Reflex: October 3, 2011 first appeared on The Incidental Economist.
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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 trying to remain polite here
I’m trying to remain polite and calm, but we’re wandering into dark territory here: Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the debate for Rick Perry last night was the onslaught he faced over his controversial decision as governor to sign an executive order mandating that 12-year-old girls receive a va
关于未保险的年度人口普查报告已经发布。 It’s the usual bad news: In 2010, the percentage was 16.3%, compared to 16.1% in 2009. Among the non-elderly, 18.4% of individuals were uninsured in 2010, which is not statistically different from the nonelderly uninsured rate of 18.2% in 2009. During 2010, 49.9 million people we
A Decade Of Health Care Cost Growth Has Wiped Out Real Income Gains For An Average US Family, by David I. Auerbach and Arthur L. Kellermann (Health Affairs) Although a median-income US family of four with employer-based health insurance saw its gross annual income increase from $76,000 in 1999 to $9
State CON laws may be unconstitutional – 9th Circuit
UPDATED – the case remands back to the district court – see at the bottom Certificate of Need (CON) laws are a holdover from President Nixon’s foray into health planning: The concept of certificate of need regimes, which many states enforce, is to avoid private parties making socially inefficient in
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
The ACO Rules — Striking the Balance between Participation and Transformative Potential, by Meredith Rosenthal, David Cutler, and Judith Feder (NEJM) The Economics of Financing Medicare, by Katherine Baicker and Michael Chernew (NEJM) The Public’s Views about Medicare and the Budget Deficit, by Robe
The effect of hospital market concentration on hospital prices [FAQ]
这是一个常见问题解答。请参阅其他其他人的常见问题解答索引。 Historical FTC and DOJ concern over hospital mergers Two posts cite literature that shows hospital concentration increases prices [1, 2] The effect of hospital mergers on prices Evidence from Oregon Evidence from California Evidence from Massachusetts A qualitative view
