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The Most Powerful Health Care Group You’ve Never Heard Of
By Brian Klepper and Paul Fischer Excessive health care spending is overwhelming America’s economy, but the subtler truth is that this excess has been largely facilitated by subjugating primary care. A...
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How Do We Bend the Cost Curve? Reduce the Waste.
By Wendy Everett, ScD Health care had its own version of the LeBron James “Decision” last month with the Supreme Court upholding the critically important elements of the Affordable Care Act. Now that...
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The Way Out of the Wilderness
By David Dranove In 1932, the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care identified rising medical costs as a threat to the financial security of millions of Americans. In a series of studies that created...
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A Sign of the Times
By David Dranove Coming Soon, North Shore University Health Systems Medical Office Building. For me, this is sad news. I am not saddened that North Shore University Health is opening yet another...
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Setting the Record Straight on Medicaid’s “Success”
By David Dranove In last Sunday’s New York Times, Paul Krugman extolled the virtues of Medicaid. Here are some excerpts from this astonishing column: “Medicaid has been more successful at controlling...
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Cigarettes Should Cost $25 a Pack
By Vijay Govindarajan and Srikanth Srinivas Henry David Thoreau said, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” We have hacked at healthcare costs for...
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Could Wasteful Healthcare Spending Be Good for the Economy?
By John Goodman Suppose I throw a rock through a store owner’s window. You admonish me for this act of vandalism. But I reply that I have actually done a good deed. The store owner will now have to...
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The Gold Plated Health Care System: What the New Numbers Tell Us about the...
By Jeff Goldsmith For the third year in a row, national health spending in 2011 grew less than 4 percent, according to the CMS Office of the Actuary. However, the report said modest rebounds in...
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The Republican Case For Waste In Health Care
By Phillip Longman Conservatives love to apply “cost-benefit analysis” to government programs—except in health care. In fact, working with drug companies and warning of “death panels,” they slipped...
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Health Care Shibboleth
By Frank de Libero “We spend far more on health care than other peer countries yet have worse outcomes. Why is U.S. health care so expensive?” I’m sure you’ve encountered similar statements, maybe even...
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Paying for the ACA: A Field Guide
By David H. Howard Like many health policy experts, I’ve closely followed and participated in the debate over the Affordable Care Act. I’ve spoken at town hall events, fielded questions from reporters,...
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Is Obamacare Responsible For the Recent Slowdown in Health Care Costs?
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI That is what we have been told the Obama administration will claim today as they begin the job of reselling Obamacare. Is Obamacare even partly responsible for the slowdown in...
View ArticleThe Data Are Wrong. Our Patients Are Sicker!!!
By Paul Levy People in health care don’t like it when numbers emerge that are uncomfortable. Take these, issued today by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission in its latest report on the drivers...
View Article10 Ways Innovation Could Help Cure the U.S. Health Spending Problem
By Steven Garber The United States spends more than $2 trillion per year on health care, surpassing all other countries in per capita terms and as a percentage of gross domestic product. New, expensive...
View ArticleHow Business Can Save America From Health Care
By BRIAN KLEPPER One of America’s most enduring mysteries is why the organizations that pay for most health care don’t work together to force better value from the health careindustry.We pay double for...
View ArticleThe FY15 Budget: There’s More to it Than the Numbers
By PAUL KECKLEY Saturday, the U.S. Senate passed the House-sponsored Omnibus Appropriation Bill that funds the federal government through September 2015. In all likelihood, all eyes weren’t glued to...
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The Republican Case For Waste In Health Care
By Phillip Longman Conservatives love to apply “cost-benefit analysis” to government programs—except in health care. In fact, working with drug companies and warning of “death panels,” they slipped...
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Health Care Shibboleth
By Frank de Libero “We spend far more on health care than other peer countries yet have worse outcomes. Why is U.S. health care so expensive?” I’m sure you’ve encountered similar statements, maybe even...
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Paying for the ACA: A Field Guide
By David H. Howard Like many health policy experts, I’ve closely followed and participated in the debate over the Affordable Care Act. I’ve spoken at town hall events, fielded questions from reporters,...
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Is Obamacare Responsible For the Recent Slowdown in Health Care Costs?
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI That is what we have been told the Obama administration will claim today as they begin the job of reselling Obamacare. Is Obamacare even partly responsible for the slowdown in...
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