Preparing and Presenting Effective Research Posters

For researchers who are planning on presenting research posters in the near future, Jane Miller (2007) has an excellent capacity-building article in this month’s edition of the Health Services Research (HSR) journal. Miller’s advice covers all the major facets of the poster presentation: poster design, concise phrasing of statistical methodologies, the narrative to accompany the…

Mandatory Health Insurance Now

The Reason magazine makes an compelling argument in favor of mandatory private health insurance (“Mandatory Health Insurance Now!“). A subsidy could help all individuals to afford the insurance. Some of the funds for this subsidy could be raised by eliminating the tax-deductibility of health insurance. This program funnels more than $140 billion a year in…

A Dynamic Analysis of GP Visiting in Ireland

Many studies have looked at which variables determine medical utilization rates. Specifically, most of the studies have focused on primary care or general practitioner (GP) visits. A recent study by Nolan (2007) employs panel data from Ireland to reach some new conclusions on this topic. Ireland is an interesting location to preform the study. All…

The State of the Union

Yesterday, President Bush gave the State of the Union Address. In this post, I 1) analyze Bush’s new health care plan, 2) review some commentary from various blogs on the net, and 3) give a excerpt from the speech which directly relates to health care. Healthcare Economist’s Analysis The heart of the Bush proposal is…

Quote(s) of the day

Here are some inspirational quotations for some motivation at the beginning of your week. “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” —Lee Iacocca “Success comes to the person who does today what you were thinking about doing tomorrow.” —Unknown