I'm still pulling my thoughts together on this, but if you'd like to do some homework ahead of time,
is a good primer on the Dartmouth Atlas Project's mission, and the source of some of the Democrats' talking points, especially the ones about reining in those out-of-control Medicare costs and how if we Americans would just go quietly to our ice floes use less health care, we'd all be happier, healthier, and wealthier.
There are some other goodies in there too, about coordinated care, and electronic records, and pay for performance [though I don't think they actually use the term "pay for performance" here].
Meanwhile, if you like interactive timewasters on the web [I adore them], here's a good place to start with the Dartmouth Atlas database.
- hipparchia's blog
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Thanks for all the information and links
I knew someone here would have some of the data I wanted; I should have known you'd have it all...
You rock!
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
i *live* for data
nice to have an appreciative audience.
BTW, speaking of marginal incentives
... as we were here,
what about the incentive that the health insurance parasites have to keep Wall Street happy and their stock prices up, by increasing profits via paying lass out for patient bills?
Oh, but I forgot: one rule for banks and insurance companies, another rule for the rest of us....
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!