Gordon's Notes

Medicare for All won’t work in 2020. We have an insurmountable path dependency problem. We can, however, implement the ACA public option. I...

I had no idea this situation had improved — and I follow health care fairly closely …. The Pricing Of U.S. Hospital Services: Chaos Behind...

The health insurance industry is consolidating. Aetna acquired Humana and Anthem bought Cigna . That leaves UnitedHealth, Aetna and Anthem ...

Even with rather generous tax breaks, wellness programs cost corporations money. So why pay companies like South Africa's Vitality Group...

In healthcare, only the uninsured pay list price. They actually pay the crazy amounts that show up on their healthcare bills. Other payers, ...

Few people will have noticed new rules around corporate "health-contingent wellness programs" (emphases mine): Administration De...

Obama raised mileage standards for my industry. Ok, so it wasn’t him personally, and it’s not mileage, and I don’t exactly own the health c...

William Baumol was born in 1922 . In 2012, 90 years later, he's listed as first author on a new book :  The Cost Disease: Why Computers ...

Roger Ebert wrote a column on gun control and received 650 comments. He read them all. Then he responded, with one of his best columns eve...

Stanford's Chad Jones and Robert Hall tell us health care spending really is different ... Why Americans want to spend more on health ...

America's ObamaCare monster lurches forward. It is hideous. Bits and pieces have fallen off, more will fall. It lost an elbow with the u...

Thirty years ago I was distressed by the NIH's relative disinterest in demential research. Anyone who could do arithmetic knew what was ...

America is a dog that's been beat too much . Our publicly traded corporations can't get much pull from America's dwindling middl...

The good news is that Kateva's creatinine is back where it should be and her stomach is holding out. The bad news is that, even if all...

My understanding of the financing of social security, and perhaps of medicare, was that we took some of the wealth of the future to make the...

Today's DeLong is about bond prices, and, in part, about the effect of uncertainty on savings decisions (emphases mine) ... Hoisted fr...

One year ago, against enormous resistance, Barack Obama and his allies muscled RomneyCare , aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ...

Health reform discussions are boring. I wish could resist health care reform posts. It's a compulsion, but at least I only do them every...

From 1910 to 1984 medical progress was extremely swift. After 1984, not so much. As I wrote in 1998 ... Gordon's Notes: Challenges to...

There are superb French (and other) pastries all around the island of Montreal, but Minneapolis St. Paul pastries peak at mediocre. The Twin...