Why Health Services Research is important, part gazillion
From the CDC**: More than a third of American adults are eligible to take cholesterol-lowering medications under the current guidelines or were already taking them – but nearly half of them are not, according to a report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers published in the curr
A reader’s response on Census survey changes
Responding to Aaron’s post about changes to the Census’ survey methodology that will make it difficult to measure the impact of the ACA, Genevieve Kenney wrote me to remind us that there are many other good survey sources: I know you are thinking about what might be lost/gained as the CPS [Current P
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
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
You’d think we were all popping pills like crazy
But you’d be wrong: More than a quarter of Americans who take prescription drugs have skipped doses, split pills or cut other corners to save money in the last year, according to a new study by Consumer Reports… This telephone survey, of 1,154 adults who currently take at least one prescription drug
1 月 27 日，来自 AMC G3/5 Current Operations 的豪尔赫·卡斯特罗 (Jorge Castro) 上校和卡尔·格哈特 (Karl Gerhart) 中校荣获陆军部长颁发的陆军卓越奖章，以表彰他们在协助快速部署防地雷反伏击车方面所做的努力枪手的束缚...
