Joe Jarvis's blog

What Makes Health Insurers Nervous?

This Election Is About Health Care

or so says Ezra Klein of the Washington Post (http://w

Bipartisan Nonsense on Health Care Costs

The BiPartisan Policy Center, an organization founded by Bob Dole, George Mitchell, Howard Baker and Tom Daschle, has published a report on health care costs (

Medical Debt is An American Heartache

Kirsten Stewart reported about medical debt in the Salt Lake Tribune recently (http://www.sltrib.com/sltri

Improving Quality Is Necessary to Reducing Health Care Cost

Part of the Executive Summary from a report entitled "Opportunities for Value-Based Competition in Swiss Health Care" by Elizabeth Olmstead Teisburg PhD, Darden Graduate School of Business, Univers

Primary Care not Annual Check-Ups

Straw Poll of Doctors

The straw poll was conducted by Jackson and Coker, a prominent physician staffing firm, and published in their newsletter (

Pay for Performance: Manipulating Greed

Greed is not what induces doctors and nurses to better care for patients.