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Why We Still Don’t Know if Medicaid Affects Health Status

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Nicholas Emptage

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve heard about the Oregon Medicaid study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In case you’ve been on vacation, however, the results were, at best, a disappointment to advocates of Medicaid: a… Continue Reading →

Hospital Profits Higher When Surgical Patients Develop Complications

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Debra Gordon

In yet another sign of just how dysfunctional and Kafkaesque our healthcare system has become, consider a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of data for all inpatient surgical discharges… Continue Reading →