I Have Some Silly Questions
The Health Care Blog,
BY KIM…
The Sad State of the USA
Socialism or your money back,
Radio host Thom Hartmann recently compared economic conditions for two groups of people of equal size in the U.S.: Baby Boomers …
'The System' Is Ruining Our Present and Collective Future
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Now is a time of unprecedented opportunity for progressive change. The reason is simple: "the system" is ruining the future for…
"It's the prices, stupid!". And they won't tell us what they are...
Medicine and Social Justice,
You wouldn’t buy most things if the price were not labelled, and certainly not if price were not available on asking. Sometimes…
New Technologies Drive Cost Growth Over Time
The Health Care Blog,
By KEN…
Will State Public Options Deliver on Health Care Reform?
The Regulatory Review,
During the 2020 Democratic primary race, the debate over how to reform the United States’ health care system took center-stage.
It’s NOT the prices, stupid?
Healthcare Economist,
A famous paper by Anderson et al. (2003) attempted to explain why health care in the U.S. is so expensive. The answer: “It’s…
Charting The Economic History of US Health Reform
The Health Care Blog,
By MIKE MAGEE…
Column: A brilliant economist diagnoses the U.S. healthcare system — from beyond the grave
Booster Shots - latimes.com,
The late Uwe Reinhardt, in a final, posthumous book, explains everything you need to know about our dysfunctional healthcare…
Nursing homes are closing. What should we do?
Healthcare Economist,
An interesting article on the Marketplace Morning Report last week dives into the topic. Hundreds of nursing homes around…
Health Care: A Question of Distributive Ethics?
Online Library of Law and Liberty,
To address the system’s problems, the late Uwe Reinhardt prescribed price controls, but these don’t improve efficiency or…
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/29/2019
naked capitalism,
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Trade “Google to shift Pixel smartphone production from China to Vietnam” [Nikkei Asian Review (F…
It’s the For-Profit Health Care Industry Telling Us We Can’t Afford Medicare for All
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Salomeh KeyhaniMedicare for All would mean that the proverbial “pigs at the trough” of the $3.5 trillion health care system…
It Really Is The Prices, Stupid!
Workers Comp Insider,
Trying to understand American health care these days is a little like trying to do the breast stroke through molasses. A lot of…
3 Ways Trump Could Disrupt Health Care for the Better
naked capitalism,
Even fairly modest changes in health care come off as disruptive relative to what many experts are willing to endorse.
Study – U.S. Health Care Spending Highest Among Developed Countries
beSpacific,
Johns Hopkins: “The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the…
Misdiagnosis: Obamacare Tried to Fix the Wrong Things and Prescribed the Wrong Treatments
The Health Care Blog,
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and…
Medical Mystery: Something Happened to the U.S. Health System After 1980
The Incidental Economist,
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). Research for this piece was…
Trump Drug Pricing 'Blueprint' Could Take Years To Build
Health | 89.3 KPCC,
In a speech Friday, President Trump announced a plan that lists dozens of "potential" steps his team may take to lower drug…
Trump Drug Pricing 'Blueprint' Could Take Years To Build
Health,
The 39-page drug price plan includes an array of ideas that the administration will consider but it's unclear which ones will…
America leads the world in high tech care and health care costs
KevinMD.com,
Why is U.S. health care so costly compared to other developed countries? A recently published report provides some insights. In…
High prices, not waste or over-use, drive high health care costs in the US
LSE Business Review,
According to the World Health Organisation, nearly 4 in every 10 dollars spent on health care in the world is spent in the US…
High prices, not waste or over-use, drive high health care costs in the US
USAPP,
The US spends nearly 18 percent of its GDP on health care, making it a real outlier among high-income countries in this area.
The Bottom of the Healthcare Heap
The Doctor Will See You Now,
Healthcare in the U.S. costs way more than it does anywhere else, and it delivers less. Read more...
Why Are U.S. Health Costs The World's Highest? Study Affirms 'It's The Prices, Stupid'
CommonHealth,
The overriding reason for our out-of-whack costs is the exorbitant price tag attached to everything from doctors' time to…
The real reason the U.S. spends twice as much on health care as other wealthy countries
Wonkblog,
(AP Photo/Richard Drew) A sweeping new study of health care expenditures found that the U.S. spends almost twice as much on…
It’s (Still) the Prices, Stupid
The Health Care Blog,
By SETH…
Why We Spend So Much on Healthcare and Get So Little for Our Money?
Ed Dolan's Econ Blog,
We often hear that we, in United States, spend more on healthcare than other high-income countries, but get less for our money.
Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
The Incidental Economist,
The following, jointly authored by Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll, originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New…
Sutter Health’s antitrust case matters. Here’s why.
KevinMD.com,
In case you missed it: Sutter Health, the Northern California health system titan was recently sanctioned for intentionally…
News 11/15/17
HIStalk,
Top…
From The Archives: Prices And Consumer Shopping
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
Welcome to “From the Archives,” an occasional Health Affairs Blog series, where we take a timely topic and delve into the…
Taming Health Care Spending: Could State Rate Setting Work?
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
For more than three and a half decades health care expenditures in the United States have grown at a much higher rate than…
Proton beam therapy for everyone!
The Incidental Economist,
Last week, Austin and I wrote a piece raising concerns about the one-size-fits-all approach to the benefits covered by employer-s…
JAMA Forum: Why Are Private Health Insurers Losing Money on Obamacare?
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By Uwe Reinhardt, PhD The report last week that Aetna, one of the major US health insurance companies, would leave most of the…
‘Moderate’ Health Spending Growth Projections Exceed What We Can Afford
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
There are few surprises in the government’s recent 11-year projections of national health expenditures (NHE). The 5.8 percent…
JAMA Forum: We Can’t All Have It All: The Economic Limits of Pharmaceutical Innovation
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Even though US consumers spend 3 times more for hospital care than for medication, they are much angrier with pharmaceutical…
Think Again: Health Insurers Have No Reason To Reduce the Price of Health Care
The Health Care Blog,
By JK…
It’s Still the Prices, Stupid!
The Health Care Blog,
By STEVE…
Reconsidering Pauly And Coauthors’ ‘Economic Framework For Preventive Care Advice’
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
Editor’s note: The following blog post is an extended version of a Letter to the Editor, published in the January issue of Health…
Slow Health Care Spending Growth Moderates GDP Growth In The Short Term And Policy Targets Should Reflect This
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
Economic growth is most often measured by growth in gross domestic product (GDP), which is the value of all final goods and…
Acknowledging The Elephant: Moving Market Power And Prices To The Center Of Health Policy
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
Editor's note: See Stuart Guterman's post on consolidation and market power in health care, also published today, and watch for…
Health policy experts versus everyone else: Why do the experts believe themselves?
PNHP's Official Blog,
Unnecessary Tests and Procedures In the Health Care System: What Physicians Say About The Problem, the Causes, and the Solutions…
A Better Way to Save $1 Trillion
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog,
Health economist Victor Fuchs argues that if we spent the same fraction of national income on health care that other countries…
Inequality Is At The Core Of High Health Care Spending: A View From The OECD
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
It is commonly said that the US spends more than twice as much on health care as other developed countries, yet its outcomes…
Why does U.S. health care cost so much? The hidden-in-plain-sight answer
PNHP's Official Blog,
By Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D. We in PNHP often give the impression that the principal problem with America’s health care system is…
Searching for a diagnosis
Democracy in America,
AMERICA spends more on health care than any other country in the world. What is more, spending within America varies…
Why is the American Health Care System So Expensive?
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit,
One of the biggest problems plaguing our economy is the high price of health care. According to Ezra Klein’s post on the…
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
Ezra Klein,
Steve Brill's massive Time article focused national attention on the price of health-care services in the United States. Sarah…
Improving the appropriateness of diagnostic tests
Healthy Debate,
The number of diagnostic imaging tests performed on Canadian patients has been increasing rapidly in recent years. Although the…
A Better Way to Control Health Costs
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog,
In his column, David Brooks asks why candidates seem unwilling to discuss slowing the growth of medical costs: Medicare and…
Does More Care Mean Better Care?
Healthy Debate,
A recent study found that Ontario hospitals that used more resources and spent more money had better outcomes for acutely ill…