…as your calculation is based on survival gains, it is fundamentally misleading,” said Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a healthcare expert at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice….
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…
Elliott Fisher questions whether ACOs will work
…Elliott Fisher, the Dartmouth Medical School professor who helped coin the term ACO, and who worked with members of Congress to draft the ACO concept into the health-care law, concedes…
What? Increased Medicare spending improves health status?
…of the 3 years. We used the Dartmouth Atlas End-of-Life Expenditure Index defined for hospital referral regions in 1996 as the exogenous identifying variable to construct the IVs for medical…
Is higher U.S. health care spending on cancer worth it?
…is fundamentally misleading,” said Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a healthcare expert at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. n the new analysis, the survival gains in the…
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?…
The Urgent Need for National Health Care Reform
…Robert S. Adelstein MD Bethesda, MD James E. Barrett, M.D., Research Professor Emeritus of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, NH Harvey H. Barten, M.D. Psychiatry…
Senate Finance report on financing health care reform
…Dartmouth and elsewhere have found that health care spending varies widely across the United States. Moreover, higher health care spending does not correspond to better quality care of care. The…
Events Calendar
…events for PNHP and SNaHP. Please check this page often, or if you have a Google account you can simply add the calendar there. To notify us of an upcoming…
Tenet paid overtime hours by math, not money
…Healthcare has provided us with innumerable examples of these perversities. A quick Google of the PNHP website, in a fraction of a second, produced these lines and many more: “For-profit…
Why I won’t give up in the fight for single payer
…then, was defeated. For the details, please google “Buying An Election – California’s Universal Health Care Initiative – 1994” by Gordon Skene on Jan. 30, 2010. Greed succeeded. The insurance…
D. Light on Fukuyama's "History" and D. Massey on "American Exceptionalism"
…copy, type in Google: Massey “Globalization and Inequality” and a pdf link will appear.) With best regards, Don Donald W. Light Professor, UDMNJ-SOM Lokey Visiting Professor, Stanford University Visiting Researcher,…
