Fireworks galore for the Fourth of July Potpourri, including dynamite excerpts on the effects of parent caregiving on caregivers' financial status; health insurance exchanges; physician compensation; provider performance data gathering…
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Summer waxes but no heat-induced torpor can stop us from producing our Potpourri of health snapshots, including the health care and health care coverage of young adults; malpractice incidence; Massachusetts…
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An AHRQ Statistical Brief looks at changes in employer-based insurance premiums from 2001-2009, finding large increases in premiums and even larger increases in the employees' share of such premiums, particularly…
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A working paper at the National Bureau of Economics reports on an analysis of the effects of England's attempt to increase competition between hospitals on quality, finding that hospitals in…
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A new report from McKinsey finds that the federal reform law will have more of an effect on the market for employer-based health insurance than other studies suggested would occur.…
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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