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Latest Health Wonk Review
Jaan Sidorov at the Disease Management Care Blog hosts a mind-blowing edition of the Health Wonk Review. Seriously, it is really good. AND it includes a post from our own Nicole Fisher. Check it out...
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David Williams Hosts Latest Health Wonk Review
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act continues to roll along, but more than that, the health care industry is doing a great job of coming up with loads of its own ideas. In the latest edition of...
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More Physicians Entering Primary Care, But Not Enough
Last Friday, March 15th, was “match day”–the day when medical students who are preparing to graduate find out where they have been matched for their residencies. It’s an interesting process. The...
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Why “Obamacare Credits Could Trigger Suprise Tax Bills” Is Misleading
A few days ago, Stephen Ohlemacher wrote an article for the Associated Press entitled “Obamacare credits could trigger surprise tax bills.” For those who haven’t read it, a quick synopsis: Thanks to...
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Health Wonk Review Tackles New Questions In Health Reform
Health reform continues to be implemented, and new questions keep rising to the surface. In the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review, some of the best bloggers around take a look at these questions...
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Health Wonk Review at InsureBlog
Hank Stern does an excellent job hosting the latest Health Wonk Review. Check it out here.
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Making Sense of the Oregon Experiment
Last Thursday, an article by Kate Baicker and colleagues came out in the New England Journal of Medicine. Almost immediately, the article received widespread attention in the media where headlines...
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America Spends More on Emergency Medicine Than Previously Thought. Good or Bad?
American emergency departments take a lot of heat from critics who assert that they are one of the places in our health care system where resources are wasted in abundance. These arguments have less to...
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Health Wonk Review: Sardonic Edition
This edition of the Health Wonk Review is a bit tongue-in-cheek, as I offer some interesting definitions of well-known words and make light of some of the more despair-inducing aspects of the world of...
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Shafrin Hosts Latest Health Wonk Review
If your looking for some of the most pressing questions in health policy–and some awfully good answers to those questions–check out the Jeopardy Edition of the Health Wonk Review, hosted by the...
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Do Readmission Rates Really Indicate Hospital Quality?
Unplanned readmissions to the hospital have been the focus of much attention in recent years for obvious reasons: First, they are relatively easy to measure using administrative claims data. Second,...
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Latest Health Wonk Review
The latest installment of the Health Wonk Review is up over at Wing of Zock. It features a Wright on Health post, along with many other great posts from other top-notch health policy bloggers. Stop...
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Racial Segregation, Hospital Quality, and Disparities in Surgery
A new study from Justin Dimick and colleagues appearing in the June issue of Health Affairs builds on the established evidence that blacks are more likely than whites to have surgery at low-quality...
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Putting a Price Tag on the Decision to Opt-Out of the Medicaid Expansion
Conservative opposition to the Affordable Care Act is old news. Even after the Supreme Court ruling last year, it was quickly established that–given the option–many traditionally Republican states...
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How Immigrants Strengthen the Medicare Trust Fund
Growing up in the deep south, where most of my family still lives, I can’t tell you how often I hear complaints about all the supposed havoc immigrants are wreaking on our nation. Apparently, they’re...
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Delaying the “Employer Mandate”
Much ado has been made about the Obama Administration’s decision this week to delay implementation of what most media sources are calling a “key” part of the law for an additional year, until 2015. The...
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The Willing Provider Problem
I spend a lot of time thinking about and researching issues around access to health care. Typically, when we–the American people–think about access to care, we think about one thing: health insurance....
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Health Care Spending: Why Immigrants Aren’t the Problem
I recently wrote a piece highlighting research that shows that immigrants actually strengthen the Medicare program, because they pay more money into it than they spend. But many of you may have noticed...
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The Dog Daze of the Health Wonk Review Are Upon Us
David Williams of the Health Business Blog hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. He presents the best of the health policy blogs, with focuses on topics including insurance,...
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