When did the IPAB become so controversial?
Sometime after May 20, 2009, the day that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced The Patients’ Choice Act (PCA) into the 111th Congress (along with co-sponsors Devin Nunes, and Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard...
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The Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have a new policy brief (summary) on Medicare enhancing the quality and efficiency of the program by improving its coverage policy (what care...
View ArticleCost effective v. cost saving
Jeff Levin-Scherz nicely demonstrates that cost effective is not the same thing as cost saving, using the example of statins and their decrease in heart disease mortality risk. Statins are enormously...
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