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Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Mixed Results from the Most Significant...
From The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment Website via Austin Frakt The most important study in American health policy in decades, the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, published two-year results...
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Repealing Obamacare: For Republicans, the 37th Time Wasn’t the Charm
Lately, it seems as if House Republicans are performing a real-life version of Waiting for Godot — taking the quote, “Nothing to be done” to its absurd conclusion. In doing so, they’re wasting...
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The comments section is getting fun for my article about why young, healthy people (read: me) should be OK with their premiums (potentially) increasing with the Affordable Care Act High-risk,...
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An estimated one-third of antimalarial drugs in Uganda are counterfeits – very, very bad news for treatment. An interesting look at the counterfeit drug market in China Health care spending is slowing...
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Interesting profile of a Louisville clinic and how it’s preparing for the health exchanges and the influx of new Medicaid patients from the Affordable Care Act An alternative title for this great look...
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Can a Portable Hand Sanitizer System Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections in...
(Via The Health Care Blog) By Mike Miesen Ignaz Semmelweiss was laughed out of his Viennese hospital when he suggested that physicians should wash their hands in between conducting an autopsy and...
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An oral history of the March on Washington. Excellent. Just read it Will Shared Decision Making (SDM) help patients and physicians communicate more effectively? Hopefully. But, as the article notes,...
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If this article, on freelancing in Syria, doesn’t remind you of my friend, Anna Day, you don’t know Anna and should find what she writes from her Twitter Tennessee solves the Last Mile Problem of food...
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These Aren’t Mixed Results: Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations Worked
(Via Project Millennial) After a slew of disheartening press releases from CMS about the Affordable Care Act’s growing pains, the Obama Administration is probably quite happy to see the initial results...
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This, from George Saunders, is fantastic advice: “Do all the other things, the ambitious things – travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild...
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Automated hovering at Partners. Expect to see something like this at any forward-thinking hospital system in a year. Right now, the economics of it are all backwards, but the move towards accountable...
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California’s Scope of Practice Bill Was Shot Down Last Night. Here’s Why That...
(Via Project Millennial) An effort to increase the scope of practice for Nurse Practitioners in California was voted down 6-3 yesterday by the California Assembly. Senate Bill 491 originally would have...
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The best arguments for American intervention in Syria – as Ezra Klein understands them, which is broadly how I view the situation, too – and why they don’t hold much water. Though hopefully we won’t...
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A good article from Thomas Friedman (not something I say often) on 3D printing, “contests” (he uses quotation marks in the article, as if no one knows what a contest is…), and the Internet of Things...
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“There is a weird kind of discombobulating pleasure in having to switch sides. The world gets a tiny bit bigger every time you have to switch sides” – Jad Abumrad, during an interview in which he and...
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Wow. Some of Mukuru’s women are petitioning the government of Kenya for ownership of the land, and they already have 8,000 signatures. Mukuru is one of the slums/informal settlements I visited to...
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A hookworm vaccine would be a big deal for hundreds of millions of people around the world – one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Parasites, discusses why On one level, the atrocious rollout of the...
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Arguably the most damning sentences about the botched rollout of the federal health insurance exchange, healthcare.gov: “Days before the launch of President Obama’s online health insurance...
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The tide may be turning in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo; the Congolese Army has improved drastically, according to this article, and may be able to end M23 in its current form. But the...
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Must-read article on the technical and political failures that led to the messy Healthcare.gov rollout. The White House can blame the Republicans for obstructing progress, and some of the blame for...
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