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• Health Care: Hoping for a Backroom Miracle

  
  Kittywampus — Authority: 124
  You know what a thousand times more frustrating than trying a homeschool kids who think they’re on vacation? Following the debate among progressives on the Senate giveaway to health insurance companies. It’s making me downright Grinch-y. I’ve been trying to find a way to imagine that the good will outweigh the ...
  3 days ago

• Galama and Kapteyn: Grossmans Missing Threshold

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 435
  Grossman’s Missing Health Threshold   Author info  |  Abstract  |  Publisher info  |  Download info  |  Related research  |  Statistics Author Info Titus J. Galama  (RAND Corporation) Arie Kapteyn  (RAND Corporation) Abstract We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s ...
  4 days ago

• Computer or patient, who do I work for again?

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 418
  We have a new EMR system.  I like it because I type well.  I’m facile at using a keyboard and touch-screen.  Not everyone in my group is so blessed, and we’ve had some difficulties using the voice-transcription software.  Nevertheless, my gut tells me that in a month or two more, we’ll be getting along with ...
  4 days ago

• Understanding Liverpool Better: The Joint Director of Public Health Annual Report 2008–2009

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: Understanding Liverpool Better: The Joint Director of Public Health Annual Report 2008–2009 Skinny: This year’s public health annual report from Liverpool PCT focusing on: Improving Health 2010 Year of Wellbeing and Innovation Workplace Wellbeing Charter Impact of Recession on Mental Health ...
  4 days ago

• The £4bn tax loss from counterfeit ciggies

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  A good investigation here into the rapid growth of the counterfeit cigarette market in the UK… The cost in lost tax revenues is estimated at around £4bn per year - leaving aside the significant health costs arising from the consumption of illegal tobacco.
  5 days ago

• How a Few Private Health Insurers Are on the Way to Controlling Health Care

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 129
  A Re-Post from Robert Reich; PhDStaff ReportersThe healthcare public option is dead, killed by a handful of senators from small states who are mostly bought off by Big Insurance and Big Pharma -or- intimidated by these industries’ deep pockets and power to run political ads against them.AssessmentSome might say ...
  6 days ago

• The future of healthcare entitlement

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 418
  Today I saw a young woman who may well be an archetype of those who will ultimately cause the crash of our impending bold initiative in healthcare.  While seeing her in the ER for a toothache, I asked her if she had a physician.  ‘I don’t have insurance (I understand, lots of folks don’t), that’s [...]
  1 week ago

• IDeA recession case studies: health focus

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Link: IDeA recession case studies: health focus The Skinny: Good practice examples for local authorities of coping with the health aspects of recession from Bristol, Gloucesteshire, Newcastle and Wigan. Posted in Economics, Equity, Grey Literature, Health Economics, Local Authorities, Poverty, Public Health, ...
  1 week ago

• Would Joe Lieberman Please Take Aim at Bundled Payments?

  
  Kittywampus — Authority: 124
  In comments to Jeff Fecke’s post on health care reform at Alas , I expressed my skepticism that the Senate health care bill will be better than doing nother. Ampersand kindly pointed me to two columns by Ezra Klein . This first piece was quite reassuring , because I didn’t realize that the proposed Health ...
  1 week ago

• Were Not Switzerland ...

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 656
  ... and the excise tax would make the difference between our two countries even greater. The people who want the current Senate bill accepted as is keep trotting out the Swiss example to buttress their arguments.  Heres why that argument doesnt work: First or all, Switzerland is a wealthier country: OECD figures ...
  1 week ago

• NHS operating framework for 2010/11 (letter to Social Partnership Forum and National Stakeholder Forum)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: NHS operating framework for 2010/11 (letter to Social Partnership Forum and National Stakeholder Forum) Skinny: Letter introducing the NHS operating framework 2010/11 to the Social Partnership Forum and National Stakeholder Forum Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 3p. Published: ...
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• The NHS operating framework for England for 2010/11

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: The NHS operating framework for England for 2010/11 Skinny: Establishes the priorities for the NHS for the year ahead to enable them to begin their planning. For the third year in a row, the national priorities in the operating framework remain the same, providing important stability. The five priorities ...
  1 week ago

• Health Insurance: ECONOMIC NECESSITY, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 114
  In our section ‘details on the plan’ we have offered, unconventional, yet we think innovative solutions to address the conundrum of having business in the business of providing health insurance coverage (which for 99% of businesses, is not their business).  We have argued from day one that the  post-WWII model ...
  1 week ago

• Learning from the Past: Tackling worklessness and the social impacts of the recession­ – Briefing Paper

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: Learning from the Past: Tackling worklessness and the social impacts of the recession­ – Briefing Paper Skinny: Paper that argues that beating the social impacts of recession is crucial in preventing the downward spiral into long-term worklessness that the country has seen in the past. It is published ...
  1 week ago

• Fracture prevention services: an economic evaluation

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: Fracture prevention services: an economic evaluation Skinny: This economic evaluation models the costs and benefits from establishing a fracture liaison service, to reduce the risk of secondary fractures. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 27p. Published: 14/12/2009 Posted in Financial ...
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• British Journal of Healthcare Management 2009 (Volume 15 Issue 12)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  British Journal of Healthcare Management 2009 (Volume 15 Issue 12) Contents Page Fade Fave: Productive, efficient cost savings Fade Skinny: Professor John Appleby, chief economist of the King’s Fund, discusses productively efficient cash-releasing cost minimising savings, or the jargon that no-one ...
  1 week ago

• Look at the changes, not at the levels

  
  Andrew Leigh — Authority: 122
  A few people have asked me recently for my view on “ The Spirit Level ” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, which is apparently having some impact in policy circles. John Kay’s view in the FT comes closest to my own: a larger source of irritation is the authors’ apparent belief that the application of ...
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• Windmill 2009: NHS response to the financial storm

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: Windmill 2009: NHS response to the financial storm The Skinny: Uses a behavioural simulation – Windmill 2009 to understand an analysis of what will be required if health and social care systems are to respond effectively to the major challenges that lie ahead. We identify key themes and recommendations ...
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• Barriers to Free Market Competition in Healthcare Delivery

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 129
  Why Supply and Demand Doesn’t Work in MedicineBy Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA[Publisher-in-Chief]Much has been written here, and elsewhere, about free market competition in healthcare; especially in light of the current national political debates. Yet, these markets are not free.Like Evolution – Healthcare ...
  2 weeks ago

• The problem with ‘free’ healthcare

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 418
  This is my column in today’s WorldNet Daily:http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118649There are significant problems with giving away healthcare with no accountability, or expectations of, those who receive the gift!Edwin
  2 weeks ago

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