…the Obama administration additionally promised to authorize an Institute of Medicine study on reducing the geographic disparities in Medicare payment made (in)famous by Dartmouth researchers (Wennberg, Fisher, and Skinner 2002)….
Explaining regional variation in private health care spending
…well be excess quantity of services that perhaps could be moderated by judicious application of health policy. But let’s not kid ourselves. Those who suggest that, based on the Dartmouth…
The Cochrane study of general health checkups
…cardiovascular diseases and cancer were not reduced, general health checks are unlikely to be beneficial. Abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD009009.pub2/abstract And… Comment on this study by H. Gilbert Welch, MD, The Dartmouth Institute,…
Does More Technology Bring Us Better Health Care?
…health care must bring us the best health care. However, as Drs. Elliott Fisher and Gilbert Welch of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School pointed…
Our bad habits? Or our health care system?
…during the reform process that our costs are high because of an excess of health services that often impair outcomes. With almost no substantial evidence, the Dartmouth variations often were…
Canadian drugs aren’t the cure
…Because Canada has a policy of controlling drug prices through its national health insurance system. As Deborah Stone, a health policy expert at Dartmouth, has observed, it’s not the drugs…
Leading economists’ advice to President Obama on controlling costs
…Alice Rivlin, The Brookings Institution Dr. Meredith Rosenthal, Harvard University Dr. John Shoven, Stanford University Dr. Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson, University of California, Berkeley Letter: http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22739/Economist_Letter_to_the_President.pdf…
Discretionary Deeming: How One Town Got Improved Medicare
…industrialized world. Yet our life expectancy, infant mortality and other health outcomes lag far behind. As the policy experts of Dartmouth and MIT search in vain for ways to cut…
Letter: Stay the Course on Single-Payer
…care of their well-being just as I feel the protection from police and firefighters. So we support Gov. Shumlin, we are glad he gave this talk to Dartmouth graduate students…
Do we want to avoid low-value care?
…even life saving? This is where clinical judgement and being sure that the patient is well informed play a crucial role. This is also where those citing the Dartmouth studies…
May 2014 meeting minutes
…such a coaliztion, as she is far better connected with community/citizen groups than GS-PNHP is! Gary/Rob K: Neither the UNH or the Dartmouth Policy groups are likely to provide much…
Why Medicare Advantage costs taxpayers billions more than it should
…this project. (Biles assisted Center for Public Integrity reporters with the analysis.) Dr. David Wennberg, a Dartmouth Institute researcher who has studied the payment issue, said that with billions of…
