April 20, 2009

Follow the Money?

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Most Americans have probably never heard of it, but MedPAC is arguably one of the most influential organizations in the health care arena. T...
February 12, 2009

A Tale of Two Patients

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The primary caregiver for her three grandchildren, 59-year-old Lola Sanchez tried unsuccessfully to go to the kitchen to prepare a snack for...
January 02, 2009

Movies, Restaurants, Hotels—and Now Nursing Homes

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With considerable fanfare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new rating system for nursing homes in mid-Decemb...
December 04, 2008

Don't Just Do Something, Sit There

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All over the country, hospitals are setting up “rapid response teams.” The idea is to intervene quickly when a patient looks as though he mi...
October 28, 2008

Medicare for More

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The next administration will have an historic opportunity to reform the American health care system. The federal government might actually d...
September 04, 2008

Massachusetts Health Care Reform--Act 2

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Why isn’t everyone talking about the new Massachusetts Health Care Reform law? Is it that the Governor signed the legislation into law durin...
July 22, 2008

"F" is for Failure

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Federal Reserve president Ben Bernanke stood in front of the Senate Finance Committee a month ago and delivered some bad news: the cost of h...
May 09, 2008

The Boomers are Coming, the Boomers are Coming

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I often wonder just how many billions of dollars Americans spend every year on producing reports. Think tanks, government agencies, and acad...
April 16, 2008

Don't Look Back

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For 35 years, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has been publishing startling data on regional variation in the amount of money spent on m...
March 27, 2008

Do No Harm: New Data on Dementia

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At 43 pages, the newly released report from the Alzheimer’s Association, “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.” is 50% longer than last ye...