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HEALTH SPENDING Hits $2.1 Trillion: Rx Drugs Spark Medicare Spending Jump;...

Full implementation of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit contributed to an 18.7 percent increase in Medicare spending in 2006, the fastest rate of growth since 1981 and double the rise in...

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U.S. Worst At Beating Death From Treatable Illness

In a comparison of 18 countries, the United States ranked at the bottom for number of deaths that could have been prevented by timely and effective health care. Not only were U.S. rates among the...

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BLOG: Health Wonk Review Looks At McCain, Democratic Candidate Plans And More

Bob Laszewski hosts a terrific Health Wonk Review today on his blog, Health Care Marketplace and Policy Review. Bob’s edition of this biweekly round-up of the best of health policy blogging highlights...

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HEALTH SPENDING: Fear The Dragon, Or Slay It?

Two trillion dollars is a lot of money. So when Health Affairs published earlier this week an official estimate of health spending in 2006 that exceeded that amount, it was big news. Media outlets all...

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EMERGENCY CARE: We’re Waiting Longer To See Physicians In Emergency Departments

As patient volumes in hospital emergency departments (EDs) are going up, waiting times to see an ED physician are getting longer, particularly for heart attack patients and those in need of the most...

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HEALTH SPENDING — A Dissenting View: U.S. Health Spending Growth Will...

Having reviewed the latest report on national health spending in 2006 (Health Affairs, Jan/Feb 2008) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Paul Ginsburg’s commentary (“Don’t...

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HEALTH SPENDING: Paul Ginsburg Continues The Discussion

Editor’s Note: In the Jan/Feb issue of Health Affairs, Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, offered a Perspective on the report on national health spending for 2006...

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Health Care At The Movies: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Does the fact that The Diving Bell and The Butterfly won the Golden Globe award for the best foreign movie tell us anything about French health care? Or does it tell us more about movies about health...

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HUCKABEE-STYLE HEALTH REFORM: Morally And Physically Fit

Back in November, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee wrote a remarkably candid essay for a special election issue of the trade journal Modern Healthcare. Since then, the former Arkansas...

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