…medical students. To get involved in New Hampshire, contact Dr. Donald Kollisch at Donald.O.Kollisch@dartmouth.edu. New York PNHP members in New York are working to pass the single-payer New York Health…
What are the trade-offs in public health insurance design?
Trade-offs in Public Health Insurance Design
…benefits to different people’s needs and preferences. In work I carried out with Mark Shepard, PhD, now at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and Jonathan Skinner, PhD, at Dartmouth…
Why the current COVID-19 crisis necessitates a focus on U.S. healthcare reform
…do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. Dr. Simrun K. Bal is an internal medicine resident physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. She lives in Hanover. https://www.unionleader.com……
French Family Values
…made the better choice? I’ve been looking at a new study of international differences in working hours by Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser, at Harvard, and Bruce Sacerdote, at Dartmouth….
Experts debate options for health care reform
San Diego Daily Transcript January 25, 2002 John Baldwin, M.D., Dean of Dartmouth Medical School: “The great majority of American people, around 85 percent, if you ask them, ‘Do you…
Insurers seeking higher co-pays for certain hospitals
…to John Baldwin, M.D., Dean of Dartmouth Medical School who said, “There are some things that aren’t businesses and that’s OK. I haven’t heard anyone talk about privatizing the Marine…
Uwe Reinhardt responds to Rev. Tom Mainor on single payer reform, with an additional comment by Don McCanne:
…sledgehammer. To illustrate, Medicare payments per elderly in Miami are over twice the amount Medicare pays for identical elderly in Minnesota (see Wennberg’s famous, Dartmouth Atlas.) Yet, under Medicare’s approach…
John Wennberg is howling in the wind
…for patients with similar illnesses costs Medicare significantly more at some California hospitals but results in no better quality of care or patient satisfaction. The study by researchers at Dartmouth…
The future is specialists and in-store clinics?
…does increasing the use of highly specialized services reduce health care spending? In fact, the Dartmouth studies have shown that in many areas of the country we spend too much…
Is it the prices?
Health Spending In OECD Countries In 2004: An Update
…Fisher and their colleagues at Dartmouth have demonstrated that this concentration increases spending without improving quality. The profound administrative waste of our fragmented system of financing health care also adds…
Perceptions of quality not related to Medicare spending
Relationship Between Regional Per Capita Medicare Expenditures and Patient Perceptions of Quality of Care
…than to state that it is essential that we make that change if we are serious about health care financing reform. This article and others, especially the Dartmouth studies, reveal…
Massachusetts Rallies for Single Payer Health Insurance
…Fall River, Dartmouth, Bridgewater, Brockton, Northampton, Springfield, Lynn and Cambridge. Leaders of nursing, senior, labor, medical and patient advocacy organizations are expected to testify. They will be joined by many…
