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Health Care Headlines
I wanted to put this post up last week, but got distracted by work and my one month old son (he’s great by the way). So some of this is a week or two old and I don’t have much time to add a bunch of...
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State “Flexibility” and the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits
HHS has been making a big deal about how “flexible” the essential health benefits requires are for states. Sure, it’s very flexible. They can choose from column A or column A1. States would have the...
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Statistical retrospective on Massachusetts health care revision just published
Health Affairs published a retrospective on Massachusetts Health care. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2012/01/24/hlthaff.2011.0653.full Some highlights: Coverage is broader than it was...
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Drive by Post: Combining Free Market Insurance with Universal Catastrophic
I’m passing this along because I thought it was an interesting model. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time right now to do a full post on it. Liberals Are Wrong: Free Market Health Care Is Possible
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Bartlett on Health Care in the Financial Times
Lapsed R Bruce Bartlett says government can do it better. Hmmm. America The folly at the heart of the US healthcare debate America is the only developed country that does not offer some form of...
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Health Care Costs Flattening. Why?
The New York Times has an article on the the slowdown and leveling off of health care cost, as a percentage of GDP. The economy is undoubtedly a factor, as people simply delay care. But...
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Health Care Link Dump
Just wanted to post some of the recent health care news. There’s also been an uptick in the number of SCOTUS ruling previews, but none of them are really all that insightful. Just parlor game...
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Flip Flopper in Chief?
I just don’t see how someone with so many different opinions or statements on one subject can realistically believe he can or even should be President. A quote from Romney’s book “No Apology”; After...
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Copied Without Permission from the WSJ
By JEFFREY A. SINGER Every so often I have an extraordinary and surprising experience with a patient—the kind that makes us both say, “Wow, we’ve learned something from this.” One such moment occurred...
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Health Insurance Freedom
I posed a question up on Plum Line today and got some interesting responses. I think NoVA and jnc were active on the thread. We’ll make it a two parter. I thought Brent, Kevin or Mark might be...
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