CIS Exaggerates the Cost of Immigrant Welfare Use
Conclusion
When they use appropriate controls in the later parts of their paper and their appendix, CIS reaches much less negative and sometimes even positive results than their messaging indicates. Many of the issues raised in this post may be too wonky for general consumption, but they are important for producing excellent research. Cato has published two working papers, a bulletin, a policy analysis, and a book chapter on immigrant welfare use and the broader fiscal effects in which we explain our methods and defend them against criticisms. We even include a literature survey on the topic that discusses the different ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Concussions: A Girls’ Health Problem
For many people, the connection between sports and concussions will come as no surprise. Within the past few months, concussions have had a continued presence in the media, mostly as they pertain to professional football. Intentionally or not, the NFL has been leading the charge on concussion awareness for the past several years. In 2014, documents were brought to federal court saying that a third of all retired NFL players were expected to develop a “long-term cognitive problem” at some point in their lives as a result of head injuries from football. Recently, a court finally affirmed the deal for the NFL to compensat...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Children gender Policy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound: Eye Think It’s the Retina
Part 3 in a SeriesThe Problem: Unilateral, painless vision changes and floatersOcular ultrasound is a short and sweet procedure that could change your practice and greatly benefit your patients. It can actually be used to diagnose retinal detachment, which in the past required a referral to an ophthalmologist and often led to delayed therapy. Noninvasive and simple ultrasound techniques can be used on any patient of any age presenting with visual changes. The differential for visual changes with or without complete vision loss or blurry vision encompasses a daunting list. This is for you especially if retinal deta...
Source: The Procedural Pause - May 2, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
How Things Get Done In Washington: Insights From 23 Former CMS Leaders
If you like the series House of Cards, or perhaps you simply want a better understanding of how things get done in Washington D.C., you may want to check out a new resource from the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). Insights from the Top: An Oral History of Medicare and Medicaid is a series of 23 individual interviews with former administrators and acting administrators of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its predecessor, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). NASI conducted the project as part of its celebration of the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid.
Particularly n...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 20, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Trysla Tags: Featured Health Professionals Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Organization and Delivery ACA CMS Democrats HCFA national academy of social insurance Politics Republicans Source Type: blogs
Fannie and Freddie: Expropriation?
In the April 13, New York Times an article discusses developments in the civil proceeding between an owner of shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the federal government over the latter’s decision in August 2012 to revise the terms of its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The original agreement stated that the U.S. Treasury would receive a 10 percent dividend on its 189.5 billion dollar injection of capital. The revised terms gave all positive cash flows from Fannie and Freddie to the Treasury leaving little for the firms’ shareholders. Granting a request from the government, materials produced ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
TBT: Take Your Own Advice! U.S. Should Pay More Attention to STD Prevention Programs Abroad
April is STD Awareness Month. Although the post below originally just ran a little more than a month ago, it is too good not to run in support of STD awareness and for TBT.
Most sexually transmitted diseases are preventable. That’s one reason it’s so upsetting that one in four sexually active girls in the United States has one. Out of the 19 million new STD cases annually in the U.S., almost half are among people ages 15 to 24. And those statistics only represent the number of reported cases; many more infections go undocumented. Despite the clear need for STD prevention strategies among young people, current efforts a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: TBT Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs April Issue: Patients’ & Consumers’ Use Of Evidence
The April issue of Health Affairs examines patients’ and consumers’ use of evidence to inform health care decisions. The issue includes studies about the role of evidence in health care decisions, the barriers associated with collecting and using data, and opportunities to engage with patients as consumers.
A DataGraphic (excerpted below) offers a pictorial view of the use of evidence in making health care decisions.
Content on patient use of evidence in the April issue of Health Affairs was supported by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The issue contains articles about the potential transforma...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Connecticut Health Affairs journal patient uses of evidence Source Type: blogs
#SpacesOfHealth: Aging in Place Live Webinar
On Thursday, March 31, 2016 from 1-2 p.m. ET Disruptive Women in Health Care Founder Robin Strongin will be a panelist on George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health’s #SpacesOfHealth: Aging in Place Live Webinar. More information on the webinar including how to participate can be found here. (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Briefing: Patients’ And Consumers’ Use Of Evidence
The health policy literature is filled with references to providers, but patients are all too often left out of the conversation regarding how to best meet their needs. Growing attention to patient-centered care – with the attendant need for a better understanding of patient goals, better methods for engaging patients in their care, and better measures of outcomes that have meaning for patients – recognizes the moral and practical need to view patients as the center of the health care system.
WHEN:
Thursday, April 7, 2016
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
WHERE:
W Hotel Washington
515 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC (...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs events patient uses of evidence Source Type: blogs
U.S. Health Care vs The World
The United States spends 54 percent more on health care per person than most other developed nations spend. With this level of cost, you would expect that the United States would also lead the world in terms of health care quality. However, in many areas of health service availability and accessibility, the United States falls behind countries like Germany, Australia and France. For every 1,000 Americans, there are 2.5 practicing physicians compared to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average of 3.2. This difference may seem small. But when we start considering 10,000, 100,000 or 300 millio...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Bioethics Meets Moral Psychology
On Thursday, May 19th 2016, in New York City the Hastings Center is sponsoring a free all-day symposium, "Bioethics Meets Moral Psychology."
Mainstream bioethicists have traditionally made at least two assumptions about the nature and outcome of their work. The first is that reason drives their conclusions. The second is that, when presented with those reasoned conclusions, others will change their behavior, practices, or policies accordingly.
Findings from moral psychology suggest, however, that neither of those assumptions is wholly correct. Both exaggerate the power of reason and underestimate ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 14, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Take Your Own Advice! U.S. Should Pay More Attention to STD Prevention Programs Abroad
Most sexually transmitted diseases are preventable. That’s one reason it’s so upsetting that one in four sexually active girls in the United States has one. Out of the 19 million new STD cases annually in the U.S., almost half are among people ages 15 to 24. And those statistics only represent the number of reported cases; many more infections go undocumented. Despite the clear need for STD prevention strategies among young people, current efforts are scattered and inconsistent across the U.S. While 23 states require sex education, only 13 states require that the information be “medically accurate.” Even when sex e...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Global Health Publc Health Source Type: blogs
CMS is Largely Why we Have so Little Useful ACO Research
By DAVID INTROCASO
In his THCB essay, “Why We Have So Little Useful Research on ACOs,” Kip Sullivan correctly notes we know surprisingly little about the ACO program. (While he identifies Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plan ACOs, here I’m referring specifically to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs that account for two-thirds of all ACOs.) Why there is little useful research is however not due to the two reasons Mr. Sullivan proposes. To understand why we lack useful ACO research look no further than the agency that manages the MSSP.
Mr. Sullivan’s explanations are: since ACOs ha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCB David Introcaso Source Type: blogs
CMS Is the Reason We Have so Little Useful ACO Research
By DAVID INTROCASO
In his THCB essay, “Why We Have So Little Useful Research on ACOs,” Kip Sullivan correctly notes we know surprisingly little about the ACO program. (While he identifies Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plan ACOs, here I’m referring specifically to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs that account for two-thirds of all ACOs.) Why there is little useful research is however not due to the two reasons Mr. Sullivan proposes. To understand why we lack useful ACO research look no further than the agency that manages the MSSP.
Mr. Sullivan’s explanations are: since ACOs ha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCB David Introcaso Source Type: blogs
