…economics, policy, and management master’s student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He recently graduated with a bachelor’s in economics and public policy from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New…
PNHP Newsletter: Fall 2023
…planning a campaign to have the New Hampshire Medical Society pass a resolution endorsing a “Simplified Public Payer System.” Finally, members will gather at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Academic Center for a…
Uwe Reinhardt comments on LeBow and Sullivan
…contract begot, and the questions it raised concerning the quality of American health care (just look at his last edition of the Dartmouth Atlas, devoted entirely to quality). Bob Brook,…
Practice Variations and Health Care Reform: Connecting the Dots
…First, Wennberg and his colleagues at Dartmouth Medical School have developed methods to link the practice variations with specific hospitals and physicians, and they plan to make provider-specific information available…
Imaging as a proxy for government cost control
MRI, X-ray firms fight Medicare cuts
…their outcomes are just as good, and in some cases better, than communities spending twice as much on imaging,” said Elliot Fisher, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School who consulted…
Senate Finance report on financing health care reform
Baucus, Grassley Release Policy Options for Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform
…current levels of spending; reevaluating current health tax subsidies; and changing non-health tax provisions. Reducing Geographic Variation Researchers at Dartmouth and elsewhere have found that health care spending varies widely…
NYT Blog: Medicare for all?
Medicare for All? 'Crazy,' 'Socialized' and Unlikely
By Katharine Q. Seelye Prescriptions Blog The New York Times September 19, 2009 Jonathan S. Skinner, an economics professor at Dartmouth, said there would be both positive and negative effects…
Grand Rounds: Health Reform – What Passed? What Didn't? How Does It Compare to Single Payer?
The video presentation by Dr. Fein is no longer available. It has been removed from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s website. National Health Insurance for the U.S.: Has its time come?…
Elliott Fisher questions whether ACOs will work
The Model of the Future?
…unicorn; everyone thinks they know what one is, but no one has ever seen one,” says Gene Lindsey, president and chief executive of Atrius Health. Elliott Fisher, the Dartmouth Medical…
Shumlin: Timing Key For Single-Payer
…of 120 health experts at Dartmouth College Monday evening. “In other words, we want to work with what we’ve got. We can’t gamble this plan on someone elected after 2016.”…
ACOs, ACA, and integrated health systems
Letter to Donald Berwick, M.D., Administrator, CMS
…Geisinger Clinic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Univ. of Michigan Med. School Marshfield Clinic St. John’s Clinic Novant Medical Group Middlesex Health System May 12, 2011 On behalf of the multi-specialty groups participating…
What? Increased Medicare spending improves health status?
Medical Spending and the Health of the Elderly
…a 3-year observation period and health status, measured by the Health and Activity Limitation Index (HALex) and survival status at the end of the 3 years. We used the Dartmouth…
