September 18, 2009 in Miscellaneous | No comments
“A lot of people think government action saved capitalism. It didn’t. Capitalism saved capitalism.
A lot of people think the government didn’t have any plans with regard to Lehman Brothers. It did. The plans just didn’t work.”
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September 2, 2010 in Carnivals
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at Hank Stern’s always interesting InsureBlog.
September 1, 2010 in Hospitals
Currently, Medicare and private insurers are attempting to put in place incentives to reduce the number of readmissions. Visits to the hospital are costly and reducing the frequency of hospital visits is the best means to reduce medical costs. In particular, if readmissions are the fault of the care the patients receive during [...]
August 31, 2010 in Current Events
California Workers Comp: Parts I and II.
Decriminalizing drugs in the Czech Republic.
Bad news for Alzheimer’s Treatment
The solution to obesity: school playgrounds?
An interview with a nurse practitioner.
Homo economicus in Paris.
August 31, 2010 in Econometrics
Oftentimes, people use the following rule of thumb: if the dependent variable is continuous, use OLS; if binary use a logit or probit. But what should you do if your dependent variable is fraction between 0 and 1. To use a logit or probit one would have to unnecessarily transform the dependent variable into binary [...]
August 29, 2010 in Health Reform
Stephen Zuckerman has a nice summary of the key provisions in the Health Reform law (i.e., PPACA). There are six broad changes: i) the creation of health insurance exchanges, ii) an excise tax on high-cost health plans, iii) creating the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), iv) Medicare policy changes v) additional emphasis on prevention and [...]
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