Friday, December 6, 2019

Health care spending falls as a share of GDP

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In Health Affairs , CMS Office of the Actuary (OACT) notes that while health care spending grew in 2018, it actually fell as a percentage of...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Urban-Rural Definitions

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How do you define if an area is rural? A paper by Bennett et al. (2019) provides some options. Population density . This is one of the si...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Why is the rent is too damn high?

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In many cities–particularly urban areas on the coasts–rent and home prices are much higher than in other areas. Many politicians talk about ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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On the demand side of U.S. health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bil...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Links

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Deficit nears $1 trillion . Pelosi’s reference pricing bill.   Gates Foundation to develop gene therapies. Was the ACA anti-marriage ?...

Why are organ donation rates so high in Spain?

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As you can guess from the title of this post, Spain leads the world in rates of organ donation. More recent figures back this up. Figures ...

Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care

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While 75 million people in the U.S. have a smart people at home, only 1 in 13 Americans have used a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Ass...