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The Geography of Health: US vs. Them
Given the discouraging and often appalling level of debate on health insurance in America, it was refreshing to view the PBS Frontline broadcast “Sick Around the World,” a documentary that dispassionately analyzed different health care systems from five developed countries:...
Atul Gawande's The Cost Conundrum - Why haven't you read it yet?
Over the last twenty years, medical costs have gradually, but steadily, replaced indemnity wage replacement as the engine driving the workers' compensation train. This is the same period during which our nation's health care costs have grown from average among...
The Best Health Care in the World: Part Five: A recap, a few questions, a conclusion and a modest proposal
This series is meant to paint a realistic, well-sourced and objective portrait of American health care early in the 21st century as compared with that of our 29 partners in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, all of...
The Best Health Care in the World - Part Four: Do the Statistics Tell the Whole Truth?
We have seen that America spends more on health care than other developed democracies around the world for outcomes that, on the whole, are no better than those achieved by the average OECD country. Our health care "system" perpetuates ever-increasing...
The Best Health Care in the World - Part Three: What Do We Get for the Money?
In Part One of this series, we began looking at some of the many cost disparities between group health and workers' compensation. In Part Two, we compared US health care costs with costs in the other 29 member-countries of the...
The Best Health Care in the World: Part Two - What does it cost?
In 1992 I became a Trustee of a major, tertiary care, teaching hospital in Massachusetts. For Trustee indoctrination, new Trustees spent a week in a classroom learning about every facet of hospital life. One morning we were briefed by the...
Weblog roundup: recession and WC; cost of physicians; undocumented workers; and heath & safety
Recessions effect on WC - Joe Paduda offers his analysis of what the recession will mean for workers comp. Citing a 2002 Minnesota study, he notes that costs rise during recessions for two reasons: claims rates and disability duration both...
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