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The high cost of US health care: it's not the colonoscopies, it's the profit

Unknown 6:50 AM Add Comment Bayonne, colonoscopy, Consumer Reports, Cost, France, Lee Green, PCMH, Richard Wender, Rosenthal Edit

The high cost of US health care: it's not the colonoscopies, it's the profit

On June 2, 2013, the Sunday edition of the New York Times ran a major investigative article by Elizabeth Rosenthal called “The $2.7 Trillio...

Unknown 9:46 AM Add Comment AMA, Edwards, Hsiao, poker, RBRVS, RUC, USPSTF, Washington Monthly Edit

Changes in the RUC: None.. How come we let a bunch of self-interested doctors decide what they get paid?

On February 2, 2011, I posted a piece titled Outing the RUC: Medicare reimbursement and Primary Care , describing the activities of this gro...

Unknown 7:43 AM Add Comment DALY, Fineberg, HALE, JAMA, Life expectancy, OECD, State of US health, YLD, YLL Edit

The State of US Health: improved over 20 years, but not nearly enough

An enormous, and enormously important, study was recently published online-ahead-of-print in JAMA describing the state of health in the US a...

Why don't graduate medical education programs produce the doctors America needs?

Unknown 7:05 AM Add Comment ABFM, Affordable care act, Chen, GME, Graham Center, Medicaid, Medicare, Mullan, NHSC, residency footprint, Social Mission Edit

Why don't graduate medical education programs produce the doctors America needs?

In 2010, Fitzhugh Mullan and others from the George Washington University, with collaborators from the American Academy of Family Physicians...

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