Medicare Part A as an individual mandate
Opponents of the individual mandate agree with Judge Hudson that the Commerce Clause does not extend to regulating inactivity: “But these regulatory powers are triggered by some type of self-initiated action. Neither the Supreme Court nor any federal circuit court of appeals has extended Commerce Cl
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
Kevin Drum has a piece up discussing Megan McArdle citing Derick Rowe: Via Megan McArdle, Derek Lowe blogs today about an entire field of pharmaceutical research revolving around PPAR ligands that pretty much went nowhere and cost drug companies a bundle: Allow me to rant for a bit, because I saw ye
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
Pro-Competition vs. Pro-Business
Jay Greene of The Detroit Free Press (h/t Kaiser Health News) reports, The regulation — which establishes a competitive bidding process for companies that provide medical home equipment to Medicare patients and also limits the number of companies under contract — could drive out of business up to 90
In a comment to my review of Angrist’s and Pischke’s The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics squidy wrote “You may also want to check out the response to this paper by Liran Einav and Jon Levin. That paper is titled Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report. In fact a paper by t
The Republican Commissioned CMS Report
My inbox is filled with questions (and screams) about the CMS report discussed at length in the news over the weekend: The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis by the chief actuary at the Centers for M
Cost-containment shoudn't be wishful thinking
埃兹拉（Ezra）采访了著名的亲卫生经济学家乔恩·格鲁伯（Jon Gruber）。首先，我要说我对他们两个都有很大的尊重。严重地。 That said, I think Ezra pulls out a weak argument at the end: One of my frustrations with the cost-control discussion is that people set this up like a choice […]The post Cost-containment shoudn't be wishful thinking first appeared on
The ER does not count as health care
There are many odd things people say all the time about health care in the United States, but this one always makes my hair stand on end (emphasis not mine): While speaking out against Democratic proposals to increase access to quality, affordable health care, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed, “all Am
