In a special holiday edition of Health Wonk Review, Julie Ferguson at Workers' Comp Insider uses The Santa Index to evaluate how Santa is fairing in his busiest season. She reports, "He got a raise of 3.8 percent or $3,130, bringing his annual wage to $143,054." However, he has "adopted some bad health habits—too many cookies, driving too fast, and lack of seat belts, to name a few—and has a quite a few risk factors, so he'd likely benefit from the lack of restrictions on pre-existing conditions."
In addition to The Santa Index check in, Julie offers a nice collection of health policy blogging, including the Health Affairs Blog post "Improving Health And Health Care: An Agenda For Reform" by Joseph Antos, James Capretta, Lanhee Chen, Scott Gottlieb, Yuval Levin, Thomas Miller, Ramesh Ponnuru, Avik Roy, Gail R. Wilensky, and David Wilson.
Hank Stern hosts the next Health Wonk Review on January 14 at Insureblog.
from Health Affairs Blog http://ift.tt/1JcuQiD
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