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Uwe E. Reinhardt: Americans Are Shocked, Just Shocked, Over Hospital Bills –...
Uwe E. Reinhardt: Americans Are Shocked, Just Shocked, Over Hospital Bills – NYTimes.com.
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Surprising candor at NYT on health care
I’ve supported Obama’s ACA, because I thought it got us off the dime on healthcare reform, it recognized the problem, rather than pretend the status quo is much better than it is. I’m not so sure it...
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Yes, the Status of Health in the U.S. Is a Disaster. Why Do You Ask?
Brendan Saloner: U.S. Health Disadvantage is Not Inevitable: The United States fares worse than virtually every other rich country across a broad set of outcomes–babies in the United States are more...
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U.S. Health Care vs. The World
The GW School of Public Health put together an interesting summarizing how the U.S. compares to selected countries on population, GDP, health care spending, life expectancy, and various other...
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The deadlock/shutdown/debt ceiling
Among our fervent GOP friends should be consideration of this: if the affordable care act had not been enacted in 2010, and Obama had been defeated in 2012, but the senate remained in the Democrat’s...
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Robert Graboyes: Enabling Supply-Side Innovation in Health Care
I generally like the thrust of this, but I’m not sure that market innovation will ever really address broader access to healhcare. On the other hand, reduced costs will help the poor the most. When my...
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To avoid failure, the Affordable Care Act must evolve
By now, the potential consequences of too few young and healthy individuals participating in the new insurance marketplaces are well known. As Ross Douthat described, [T]he law can work only if...
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Meaningless Sentence of the Day
This NY Times story on the middle class’s struggle with the new healthcare law is generally pretty good, but this sentence struck me as comically meaningless: Experts consider health insurance...
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The Big Question: Is there an alternative to Obamacare?
A health policy discussion with Booth colleagues Matthew Gentzkow and Matthew Notowidigdo.The original is here at the Booth / Capital Ideas website. The other “big ideas” videos are really good.My...
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Obamacare Light
It seems the GOP finally has an Obamacare alternative. That’s good I think, though it sounds like it does a poor job of expanding access relative Affordable Care Act of 2010. I can’t help but think...
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