My latest guest post is up at Health Care 4 All PA. You can read my commentary on the graph at the left at the link below. State Trends in the Uninsured | Health Care 4 ALL PA **Update** My guest posts for Health Care 4 All PA are down temporarily due to site maintenance. Continue reading “State Trends in the Uninsured | Health Care 4 ALL PA”
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Taking a break from Census data to talk about The Incidental Economist | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund
A new version of the Healthcare for all PA education website is up. This post has been reported on the Incidental Economist as a model for health care blogs. It’s a great source of info on healthcare including the image below on the real sources of high health care costs click the link below forContinue reading “Taking a break from Census data to talk about The Incidental Economist | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund”
Right Stimuli (or as the Tea Party would say Stimuluses)
As filming of the new Batman film begins in Pittsburgh this week, stories are circulating about how much money it will pump into the local economy for hotels, restaurants, and the entertainment industry. This may be true for the hotels, restaurants, and the rest of the local entertainment industry, many of whose employees are uninsured. Continue reading “Right Stimuli (or as the Tea Party would say Stimuluses)”
Dealing with Data Anomalies: Mortality, Income, and the Uninsured in PA | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund
My new post is up on the Healthcare 4 All PA blog dealing with the state’s uninsured and mortality rates at the county level. The trend is in the expected direction with a few outliers. Dealing with Data Anomalies: Mortality, Income, and the Uninsured in PA | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund **Related Posts**Continue reading “Dealing with Data Anomalies: Mortality, Income, and the Uninsured in PA | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund”
The Trickiness of Messaging About the Number of Uninsured (Follow Up) | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund
My weekly guest post at Healthcare 4 All PA is up. I comment further on the dangers of survey sampling and how to report them. You shouldn’t just use sample size to judge survey estimates. The Trickiness of Messaging About the Number of Uninsured (Follow Up) | Healthcare 4 All PA Education Fund
Enough with the wait times, already – ctd. | The Incidental Economist
Aaron Carroll at The Incidental Economist has a good analysis of waiting times in the US and in other countries with universal health coverage that do a far better job of controlling costs and providing care than the US. He shows with lots of charts and graphs that the US with it’s flaws in theContinue reading “Enough with the wait times, already – ctd. | The Incidental Economist”
Variability in Health Care Survey Reports but not in Vermont’s Health Care Plan
In many of my recent posts I have looked at how health care polling has been varied and manipulated. It’s always important to read between the headlines and the media outlets that publish the results sometimes as in the case of CNN with a nice report focused on health care only with questions related toContinue reading “Variability in Health Care Survey Reports but not in Vermont’s Health Care Plan”
Health Care Law – New Rasmussen Poll Down the Memory Hole
In my previous post, The US and Republicans Want Health Care Law Repealed….?, I discussed how Rasmussen Polling makes their crosstabulation and demographic information available only to those who pay them $19.95/month. Their press release and the wording of their questions implied that they restricted their samples to those with insurance only. This week RasmussenContinue reading “Health Care Law – New Rasmussen Poll Down the Memory Hole”
The US and Republicans Want Health Care Law Repealed….?
Rasmussen Reports polling has come out with a survey that says that support for repeal for the Obama health care law now stands at 60% for at least somewhat in favor of repeal to 38% against. They say 49% strongly favor repeal (but don’t say why) . This poll came out on Monday and isContinue reading “The US and Republicans Want Health Care Law Repealed….?”
Teapartiers sandbagged by health insurers | MollyRush’s Blog and a calculation mortality rates for lack of insurance.
Molly Rush, Pittsburgh health insurance activist and blogger, brilliantly in her blog about how the health insurance companies were giving money to anti healthcare groups such as the US Chamber of Commerce (covertly due to the Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court) while at the same time negotiating with the Obama administration forContinue reading “Teapartiers sandbagged by health insurers | MollyRush’s Blog and a calculation mortality rates for lack of insurance.”