Even best medical reporting infected with “make do” bias
"Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures" is important reading and met some of its ambitions. But the article overplayed over-treatement and underplayed under-treatment, failed to appreciate the importance of searching for the best treatment, and needlessly overdramatized price variability.
Even best medical reporting infected with “make do” bias
"Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures" is important reading and met some of its ambitions. But the article overplayed over-treatement and underplayed under-treatment, failed to appreciate the importance of searching for the best treatment, and needlessly overdramatized price variability.
The role of the New Democrats in the explosion of managed care
A second look at the phenomenon by which health care policy has come to be dominated by a single-minded desire for cost control, while concerns about maximizing the quality of care have been downgraded or ignored entirely.
Keeping the “best care” option out of the health spending equation
Limited debate keeps public from knowing the full scope of the potential health benefits it is being asked to give up.
Keeping the “best care” option out of the health spending equation
Limited debate keeps public from knowing the full scope of the potential health benefits it is being asked to give up.
The role of the New Democrats in the explosion of managed care
Market-based prescriptions hawked; focus on quality supplanted by focus on cost.