Discretion is the Better Part of Health Care
To people in what I call the health policy establishment, the riddle…
Medicare Pays to Treat Heart Patients Who Smoke, but Doesn’t Help Them Quit
Cardiac patients who continue to smoke face a risk of death that…
Health Myths From Aaron Carroll
Lessons from Don’t Cross Your Eyes…They’ll Get Stuck That Way: and 75…
What You Eat Matters More Than the Calories
Conclusion: “There are good foods and bad foods, and the advice should…
Is Breath Analysis the Future of Medical Testing?
Scientists are building sophisticated electronic and chemical sniffers that examine the puffs…
Myth Busters #3: Hysterectomies in Lewiston, Maine
One of the consequences of Roemer’s Law has been the idea of…
Everything We Are Doing in Health Policy May Be Completely Wrong
A relatively obscure paper (gated) published in an academic journal the other…
Why Don’t Hospitals Compete on Quality?
As explained in a previous Health Alert, it’s more profitable to compete…
Conservatives: The Utah Health Exchange is Not a Model
The Utah Health Exchange has gone from being a marginally interesting sideshow…