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Health Care Costs Killing Everything Else

published by Joe Jarvis on Wed, 01/09/2013 - 09:04

David Brooks opines that American health care costs are crowding out every other kind of spending (

Medicare and the Meaningless Market Mantra

published by Joe Jarvis on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 09:11

Reuters (via Politico) is reporting about possible 'new' proposals concerning Medicare from the Obama Administration (

Medicare Pricing: Insurance Companies Win-Win

published by Joe Jarvis on Sat, 01/05/2013 - 07:55

From Uwe Reinhardt PhD of Princeton University in the New York Times (http://economix.blogs.ny

The Opportunity Costs of Business as Usual in American Health Care

published by Joe Jarvis on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 11:19

From Steven Rattner in the New York Times, December 31, 2012:

First Class Cost; Second Rate Performance

published by Joe Jarvis on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 08:55

A phrase characteristic of American health care delivery, according to dozens of US economists, who have published a statement about the need for fundamental change in the way we do health care bus