Ezra Klein Archive: Health
What about quality? An interview with Peggy O'Kane
The National Committee for Quality Assurance is among the leading organizations in measuring health-care quality and developing systems and interventions to improve it across the system. On Thursday, it will release its latest State of Health-Care Quality report. Today, I...
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October 21, 2009; 4:08 PM ET |
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Inequality of obesity
Ta-Nehisi Coates explains why he's been blogging so much about the intersection of obesity, class and race: It's the world I live in. The buses in Harlem heave under the weight of wrecked bodies. New York will not super-size itself,...
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October 20, 2009; 4:06 PM ET |
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The Politics of Diabetes
Rachel Dry reports on a new study showing the reactions of Democrats and Republicans to news articles about diabetes. Turns out political affiliation does a good job predicting people's reactions to public health problems: When Democrats read articles emphasizing the...
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October 19, 2009; 10:55 AM ET |
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Hard Decisions
The New York Times has a good piece today examining the focus the pharmaceutical industry is putting on new cancer treatments. Part of their shift in priorities is attributable to scientific advances: We have some new ideas on how to...
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September 2, 2009; 1:15 PM ET |
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In Defense of Experts
To recap: There is an argument that national health insurance will be a net negative because pharmaceutical companies will make less money and thus create fewer new and life-saving products. On Monday, I published an interview with Dr. Jerry Avorn,...
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August 5, 2009; 5:05 PM ET |
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The State of Play on Obesity Policy
Campaign super-reporter Marc Ambinder has been working on a big article about obesity, and his blog, somewhat unexpectedly, has featured a lot of great stuff from the conferences he's been attending and the research he's been reading. Today's post, however,...
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July 31, 2009; 12:28 PM ET |
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