I wrote two months ago about the mysterious differences in health care costs that I found so intriguing in a talk by Jonathan Skinner. (That was two months ago? Really?) Since then, the surgeon/author Atul Gawande has brought the mystery to the national stage. In a long story for the New [...]
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April 18, 2009
Mysterious Question: Differences in Health Care Costs
Health Economist Jonathan Skinner gave a talk at IHME about a week and a half ago. He told us about his work on the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare, and showed us some of the numbers he’s crunched on the variation of Medicare costs by region. He has found this mysterious, 2.5x variation between [...]
April 6, 2009
Welcome to National Public Health Week
Since 1995, presidential decree has designated the first full week of April to be National Public Health Week in the United States. The American Public Health Association is kicking things off with an online “viral video” campaign. Public health has much more experience trying to stop the spread of viruses, so this campaign [...]
