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Vermont Is ‘Single-Payer’ Trailblazer

…super-majorities in both legislative chambers. Its seven hospitals (eight if you count Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center just across the border in New Hampshire), are spread out and tend not to think…

Can we recover waste by identifying geographic variations in health care?

Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations (2013)

…middle, but some falls under the low end (low-cost) and some falls under the high end (high-cost). The Dartmouth studies have confirmed the geographical nature of this distribution. Thus much…

Uwe Reinhardt on rationing in Canada and the U.S.

Does the Ryan Plan Curb Health Spending?

…described by John Wennberg and the Dartmouth group). Admittedly, that is always a work in progress, but merely making the effort does result in improvements in capacity. We also support…

Single-payer system provides security

…every Vermont citizen. No one mentioned the work of Dr. Jack Wennberg of Dartmouth, who said “bringing health care costs down to the level of Minneapolis or Seattle would save…

Oberlander – our elusive search for health care cost control

Throwing Darts: Americans’ Elusive Search for Health Care Cost Control

…Medicine study on reducing the geographic disparities in Medicare payment made (in)famous by Dartmouth researchers (Wennberg, Fisher, and Skinner 2002). Not surprisingly, many policy analysts lavished praise on the new…

How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care

…by multi-specialty groups provides good medical service and has the potential of saving much money.8 This is because, as most clearly shown by John Wennberg and his colleagues at Dartmouth,9…

Shocking injustice in health care

…“The time is always right to do the right thing.” Dr. Wennberg at Dartmouth has shown a way to “cut costs by 40 percent, enough to cover every uninsured person…