Answers To Diseases

Health Affairs has launched a new series of Health Policy Briefs, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These free, online briefs aim to provide congressional staff and busy policy-watchers with quick, clear overviews of complex, front-burner issues in the health reform and policy debate.
The first 2 briefs look at Medicare reform. The first [...]

President Obama hopes so.
But, as Abraham Verghese writes, we can’t be so sure of that. The great cost-cutting hopes proposed by the government, which also include information technology and preventive medicine, all have very little data that show there will be any meaningful cost savings.
Are we focusing on the wrong things for cost control? [...]