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Category: Health reform
Transforming Medicare via Premium Support
Tomorrow’s election promises two starkly different views on Medicare reform. The Republican option, premium support, might reduce costs to the federal treasury at the expense of the majority of senior citizens. As an example for reforming the current Medicare program, Continue Reading …
How do we Solve a Problem like Health Care Reform?
“Everyone can agree on the goal of health care reform: ensuring affordable access to high-quality care for all Americans. The question is how.” Can you guess which Presidential candidate made this statement? You might be surprised to find out that Continue Reading …
Will the Affordable Care Act kill jobs?
Many public policy decisions have impacts distant from their original intent. Public expansion of health insurance has often been associated with alterations in the labor force. So does the Affordable Care Act kill jobs or save them? For many in Continue Reading …
Payment bundles improve surgical efficiency
A project to improve the utilization and efficiency of orthopedic surgery in the public hospital system of New Zealand suggests that bundled payments can be effective. Translating these results to America remain challenging. New Zealand’s tax funded public health system Continue Reading …
Drying the DSHs
I was asked an interesting question last week when giving a presentation to Baylor College of Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Residency program. As a program housed in a public hospital that sees a lot of uncompensated care, places such as Ben Taub Continue Reading …