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Category: International Comparisons
Using Malpractice Claims as a Proxy for Quality
“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.” – Anton Chekhov Quality in health care has become a large driving force for managers, clinicians, Continue Reading …
Reinventing Health Care by Paying for Quality
Health care systems around the world are beginning to shift from paying for any and all care provided to incentivizing the provision of high quality care. However, pay-for-performance programs create their own problems. The reinvention of health care begins with Continue Reading …
Sugar…do-do-do-do-do-do
“Sugar, rum, and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, [but] which are…objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations The rationale for taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages has been discussed Continue Reading …
Time is Money
American physicians waste significantly more time dealing with red-tape associated with the multiple insurance payers in the United States. Compared to Canada – with its single payer – US physicians spend four times as much. Physicians and administrators in the Continue Reading …
Why pay more?
The United States spends more on physician services than other countries. New research suggests that consumers pay a premium for US physicians. So are US doctors the Coca-Cola and Louis Vuitton of the health care world? Why does health care Continue Reading …