If Congress creates a public option in health-care insurance, will that inevitably lead to a single-payer system, with the government…
A broad consensus holds that increased medical capability—technology—is the primary driver of health spending growth. However, technology…
Spending on health care in markets with a larger percentage of primary care physicians (PCPs) is lower at any point in time than is true in…
Dartmouth researchers have demonstrated that there is tremendous geographic variation in the efficiency of health care delivery systems,…
The article reviews the book
"Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical
Clinical Trials," by Jill A. Fisher.
Background: It is not known what effect the increased use of prescription drugs by enrollees in Medicare Part D has had on spending for…
High deductible—based health insurance plans require consumers to pay
for care until reaching the deductible amount. However, information…
Numerous studies in the United States have examined the association between quality and spending at the regional level. In this paper we…
Book Abstract: This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the…
The units of measure for losses due to health care fraud and abuse in this country are hundreds of billions of dollars per year. We just…