Understanding the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Health Care System. For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians. This research has helped policymakers, the media, health care analysts and others improve their understanding of our health care system and forms the foundation for many of the ongoing efforts to improve health and health systems across America. And it's fun: You can spend hours playing with it...
Medical factoid: Regions of the country with the highest overall medical expenses have poorer outcomes than regions with the lowest expenses...
Strange days indeed with Mrs Ingeborg Koeber, Regnar Dahl, Christian Apnes, and Mrs Stolt-Nielson...
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Art of the Poster: Dead of Night...
Softened at the edges. Sometimes, death arrives on folded feathers...
Vista with buzzards...
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End of an era: The Radiators call it quits...
OK, The Allman Brothers Band. Don't miss this 1970 set...
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4 comments:
I had to stop at Doonesbury! I am rolling in the floor!!!!!
Help! I've fallen & can't get up!!!! LMAO!!!
I read an interesting diary this week I think over at Daily Kos from someone in Michigan detailing just how much good Obama has done for that state as a result of the GM bailout and health care.
Thanks for the link K!
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