Democrats Now See ‘No Rush’ on Health Care Bill
Healthcare reform? Were we talking about healthcare reform?
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Ezra Klein – America spends way, way, way more on health care
We don’t have a government-run system. But our system is so expensive that our government’s partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems. via voices.washingtonpost.com Absorb that: Our supposedly efficient supposedly free-market healthcare system costs us more in government spending alone than other countries spend on government-run systems. Posted via web from David […]
Continue reading →Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage
Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering — as is the complacency about same.
Continue reading →Top 5 Neuron Culture Posts for October
A bit early yet, but as I’m traveling the rest of the month, here’s my top 5 over the last month. Swine flu everywhere you look.
Continue reading →Healthcare reform roundup: The Turnaround
The tone of discussions of reform in both Congress and the blogosphere has changed remarkably over the last few days. It’s gone from pessimistic to optimistic, and from a sense of retreat and a whittling away of substantive reform toward a careful expansion of reform — including the inclusion of a public option.
Continue reading →Is American Healthcare Going All Euro on Us?
Ezra Klein thinks it might. “We’re America,” Max Baucus likes to say. “Which means we have to write a uniquely American solution.” But the health-care solution that actually seems to be emerging in Congress — which looks like the health-care solutions proposed by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards during the campaign — isn’t […]
Continue reading →Health-Care Secret Revealed, Again: More Is Not Better
“If there’s any way out of our current health-care morass, it’s this: In health care, more expensive care is often no better than less expensive care.”
Continue reading →The Power of Anecdote
“if a skilled physician cannot resist orders for expensive tests and unnecessary drugs, there is no chance that individual consumers, even if they have more skin in the game, will be more successful. “
Continue reading →Our screwed-up malpractice system. Whose fault is that? Let’s try ‘nobody’.
A few years ago, a friend of mine had a baby. A few weeks into the child’s life, it became apparent she was suffering from cerebral palsy. It was quite a blow.
Continue reading →Neuron Culture’s Top Ten from September
That post reported the news (via FiercePharma) that Pfizer had tucked away in its financial disclosure forms a $2.3 billion charge to end the federal investigation into allegations of off-label promotions of its Cox-2 painkillers, including Bextra. … Because my post was was one of the few things already on the interwebz before Justice held its news conference, the Google rush shot it toward the top of the search results.
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