A humorous reminder of how crazy healthcare can seem to the outsiders who we call patients!
Analysis of the ACA: A Public Policy “Devil in the Details”
Individual Health Shrinkage Drives Up Uninsured Rate: CBO Data ~Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held steady~ The subtitle in the article above is correct: Enrollment in every other major type of coverage grew or held …
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Another Whitewash of GPO Culpability in Soaring Costs and Shortages in the Drug Supply Chain?
Originally posted on IP4PI - Independent Physicians for Patient independence: By Marion Mass, MD and Craig M. Wax, DO It appears the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Health is preparing to whitewash the culpability of GPOs in…
How The Trump Administration Is Reforming Medicare | Health Affairs
“This 124-page document challenges a premise behind 50 years of thinking in health policy circles: that our most serious problems in health care arise because of flaws in the private sector. Most problems arise because of government failure, not market …
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America Doesn’t Need Pete Buttigieg’s Forced Labor Scheme – Reason.com
“What is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment. Certainly it means that, if it means anything,” Douglass thundered in response to Union General Nathaniel P. Banks’s policy as military commander of Louisiana of extracting one year …
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Sorry, Bernie Sanders, but Disney Doesn’t Have To Apologize for Making $1.3 Billion with Avengers: Endgame – Reason.com
“More importantly, if you care about improving the quality of life and living standards over time, the essential question is always about creating broad-based, sustainable economic growth. What are the conditions that are most likely to help the economy get …
Healthcare costs…time to rethink the calculus!
For anyone still laboring under the myth that insurance carriers are motivated to hold down costs in healthcare OR that health insurance is expensive BECAUSE health-care is expensive OR that insurance helps PROTECT us from high billed charges, consider the …
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Our call to retire statistical significance and to use confidence intervals as compatibility intervals is not a panacea. Although it will eliminate many bad practices, it could well introduce new ones. Thus, monitoring the literature for statistical abuses should be …
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