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Seen in the NYT’s Economix Blog: When researchers compare high- and low-spending communities in Medicare, the difference is about 30 percent. When they randomly assign people to high and low generosity health plans — as the RAND Corporation did in the 1970s — they also find a 30 percent difference. Unfortunately, in none of these cases [...] 
Via The Moderate Voice, I found this post by Ezra Klein that makes an interesting point on the health care/insurance reform debate: It’s been convenient for critics of health-care reform to assail the Massachusetts effort. But the Massachusetts effort — which was focused on coverage, not cost — worked. It has been a success. It has [...]
I’m traveling much of the week…but I did want to resurface briefly to mention this New York Times article, which provides an interesting discussion in the challenge of maximizing the reach of health care coverage and in maximizing the affordability: “Under the bill approved by the Senate health committee,” Mr. Finan said, “a family with annual [...] 
I spent today working from home, in my recently-reconfigured home office. One of the improvements I made when reconfiguring the space was to add an extra monitor/TV, connected to a SlingCatcher, so that I feel like I have some contact with the outside world, without sacrificing monitor real estate. So, it was this setup that permitted [...]
You may have noticed that one recurring theme in my writing on issues such as universal health care has been my concern that nothing much has been done to at least review, and preferably reign in the rate at which medical expenses are rising. A share of the burden for such a challenge rests on the [...]
One of several major concerns I have in the public discussion surrounding universal health care is that many of the popular proposals we hear being floated focus on insuring the uninsured, without addressing the bigger problem: the fact that the costs of medical care are growing much faster than the overall rate of inflation. It seems [...] |
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