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What Americans Like about their Health Care

WebThe OECD has just published Health at a Glance 2021, a compendium of health care statistics across the (mostly) high-income countries that make up its …

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High US Health Care Spending: Higher Prices or Higher Quantities

WebWith such concerns duly noted, it’s interesting that per capita quantities of health care consumed in the US are highest of any country–and remember, this is after …

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Health Care Headed for One-Fifth of US Economy

WebI view myself as a fairly jaded consumer of statistics on rising health care costs, but the most recent 10-year projections from the US Centers for Medicare and …

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Changes in Enrollment and Costs: Affordable Care and Patient …

WebExpanding the number of people with health insurance is the main achievement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. In 2017, the …

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Waste and Worse in US Health Care Spending

WebAbout 25% of all US health care spending is wasted, according to an article just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by William H. Shrank, …

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The Subway Map View of US Mortality and Health

WebIf the US had a national goal of improving health, it would quite possibly take aggressive action to reduce current spending on health care, and instead use those …

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Update on US Health Insurance Coverage

WebAs the US continues to wrestle with the aftermath of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and to contemplate future changes in its health …

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Uwe Reinhardt on High US Health Care Costs

WebPossible explanation #4: High administrative costs in the US health insurance system. Here\’s Reinhardt:. According to a recent publication by America’s …

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Is Healthcare Spending Leveling Out at Last

WebIs the rise in US health care spending slowing down? For perspective, health care spending as a share of GDP had been rising steadily over the half-century …

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Focusing on High-Cost Patients

WebThere\'s a widespread belief that a large share of US health care spending goes to highly interventionist end-of-life care that does little or nothing to prolong the …

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What\’s the Value of a QALY

WebQALY is an abbreviation for \"quality-adjusted life-year.\" It refers to gains in health, which combine a time dimension and an adjustment for quality of life. Peter J. …

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Aging and Long-Term Care: An International View

WebCompared with these other countries, the US both spends less on long-term care as a share of GDP and has lower number of long-term care beds per capita …

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What Are the 10 Top Challenges for Health Policy

WebA new journal is being launched, Health Affairs Scholar, described at the website as "a new fully open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global health …

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American Doubts about Health Care

WebIt's not surprising that some Americans would have increased doubt about the US health care system since early 2020 and the arrival of the COVID pandemic. Of …

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Workplace Wellness Policies: Disappointing Evidence

WebThe idea behind workplace wellness policies is straightforward. Many workers could use a nudge toward adopting healthier lives, including diet and exercise. …

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US Spending on Mental Health: Why No Increase

WebUS spending on health care as a whole has famously expanded as a share of the US economy over time, from 5% of US GDP in 1960 to about 20% of US GDP at …

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Medicare: Becoming a Channel for Private-Sector Insurance

WebWhen Medicare started, it was essentially fee-for-service health insurance--that is, health care providers were reimbursed for the specific services they provided. There was a Part A of Medicare which focused on inpatient hospital care (although it also includes aspects of skilled nursing care, hospice care, and home health care) and Part B of …

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Every Day is a Bad Day, Say a Rising Share of Americans

WebThe Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a standardized phone survey about health-related behaviors, carried out by the Centers for Disease …

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Origins of the Body Mass Index

WebHowever, the Quetelet index was not re-baptized as the Body Mass Index until 1971, in research by a physiologist named Ancel Keys (1904-2004). Nicolas Rasmussen tells this story in \”Downsizing obesity: On Ancel Keys, the origins of BMI, and the neglect of excess weight as a health hazard in the United States from the 1950s to …

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