07-13-2006, 07:01 AM
|
#1 (permalink)
|
| Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 198
| Health Wonk Review #11: Reducing the cost of healthcare without sacrificing quality. Health Wonk Review, Issue #11 is up over at the Healthcare Economist:
So what is Health Wonk Review? Quote: |
Health Wonk Review is a biweekly compendium of the best of the health policy blogs. More than two dozen health policy, infrastructure, insurance, technology, and managed care bloggers participate by contributing their best recent blog postings to a roving digest, with each issue hosted at a different participant's blog. For participants, it's a way to network and share ideas, and for those readers who don't live in this space every day, it's a way to sample some of the latest thinking and the "best of the best."
| And the intro to Health Wonk Review, Issue #11: Quote:
In the healthcare field, as well as for most interesting areas which merit investigation, economists and policy analysts are faced with tradeoffs. Reducing the cost of healthcare often comes with a sacrifice in the quality or quantity of medical services provided; increasing the quality or quantity of medical services usually increases the price of healthcare.
In this edition of the Health Wonk Review, our pundits look at both sides of the issue...
| Read the full article |
| |