Joe Jarvis's blog

Can You Really Shop For Health Insurance Value?

The concept of the health exchange (or connector in Massachusetts) seems simple: it's like Hotels.com, except you shop for health insurance online instead of accommodations.

What Is A Global Spending Target?

Some wishful thinking a new commission in Massachusetts will be doing each year, according to JAMA (http://jama.jamanetwork.com/

Market Failure Causes Dearth of Antibiotics

The Washington Post ran an interesting article about the current crisis in treating drug resistant infections (

Medical Errors In Utah

Kirsten Stewart at the Salt Lake Tribune has published an important front page article about medical errors in Utah (

The Real Entitlement Problem is Medicare

David Brooks (NY Times columnist) as published in the Salt Lake Tribune (http://www.sltrib.c

Ryan's Plan for Medicare Might Work?

Or at least, so says Washington Post commentator Robert Samuelson (http://www.deseretnews.com

Obesity in the United States