Cancer care at MD and MSKCC. Top 100 hospitals. Fee for health model? Good bacteria. “People who work at home are significantly more productive but less innovative” Google, you know where to find me. Healthcare ‘s “Moneyball” FDA and the meningitis outbreak.
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How accurate is your health insurance quote? The robot will see you now. Good work is not enough. SSW vs. SSB. Disease-based price indexes
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Earlier this week, I posted on the President’s State of the Union address. Now its time to discuss the Republican Response. The main critic offered by Senator Marco Rubio is how Obamacare is increasing health care costs, shifting these costs to employers, and slowing down employment growth and the growth of employer-provided insurance. And because [...]
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What did the President’s speech say about health care? Today I give a review. On Medicare, I’m prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. What does Simpson-Bowles propose? Here is a list: [...]
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Health Insurance Exchanges in your state. Hospital Readmissions in your state. How much do doctors charge (by the question) Excess cost growth slowing? No old bird. Plus… Teen ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Leonard Cooper Answers Final Question Like A Boss
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Lumpectomy vs. Mastectomy. College Degree: No Class Time Required. Innovative Office Space. The opposite of too big to fail? The Super Bowl as a video game. Gold in them thar diapers. Deers vs. Horses.
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Profit and mortality. Who wants to be a death panelist? U.S. should declare bankruptcy. Elective Early Deliveries. Your robot nurse is here. $3 billion team.
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As the security situation in Somalia improves, certain occupations are now facing hard times. He became a gravedigger at the height of the civil war, when he used to dig at least 30 graves a day. “I became a gravedigger in 1991, when burying dead bodies was the best business in Somalia.” People who want [...]
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Does Medicaid pay doctors to perform abortions? The trouble with due dates. Changing Med Ed. Efficiency or fraud? Vaccine mandate. What the health?
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James Buchanan. Does having after-hours primary care docs on call improve outcomes? Learning by doing? No email. f(n,t)=log(n)+t/45000.
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