THIS IS A BRIEF COLLECTION of twenty-five posts written for THCB in the nearly two years since I started this project .  You’ll find essays on a wide range of topics in health care policy and health care economics.  You may want to try reading them through end to end (probably ambitious) or you may want to dip in for a quick browse around and then come back later for more.  I’ll update this list with more later when I get a chance. If there is a post you’d particularly like to see here, you can add a comment with your suggestion at the bottom of the page. Cheers! — Matthew

Oh Canada
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/11/policy_oh_canad_1.html

Letter from England
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/01/quality_quickie.htmlIt’s a good year for the Rowe(s)
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/03/health_plans_it.htmlWhy is the individual market such a mess?
 http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/12/health_planspol_1.html

Michael Porter sinking into the Healthcare Quaqmire
 http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/09/policyhealth_pl_1.html

As you may have guessed CDHP = cost shifting
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/04/health_plans_as.html

For Profits cost more but that’s not the point
 http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/06/hospitalspolicy.html

The value of healthcare–interesting issue but appalling analysis
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/01/policyindustry_.html

Why Wall Street hates health care services but doesn’t know it
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/09/why_wall_street.html

PHARMA: The New Yorker, Industry Veteran and Atlas on pharma pricing and
where the industry goes next.
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/10/pharma_the_emne.html

The Real Debate behind Reimportation
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/09/pharma_the_real.html

Drug prices here and there
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/03/pharma_drug_pri.htmlAre Cox-2s over used? http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/11/pharmapbms_are_.html

Online detailing and perscribing–taking off at last?
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/08/online_detailin.html

Sorry! Got it all wrong–PBMs save money.
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/07/pbms_sorry_got_.html As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2005/01/policy_as_ive_a.html

Prop 72- Sorry couldn’t help myself
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/11/policypolitics_.html

Why dishonesty rules in our health care "debate"
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/10/policy_why_dish.html

"Producers" comment on how much we should spend on health care.
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/09/policypharma_pr.html International comparisons, or "How does Japan do it?" revisited
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/09/policy_internat.html

Toto, we’re back in Kansas and it’s 1991 again.
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/07/policy_toto_wer.html

Reggie’s back and the intellectual slop goes on
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2004/04/consumersindust.html

Health Care Costs 101 http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/12/policy_health_c.html

User fees, employer-based insurance and why it won’t go away
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/10/policy_user_fee.html

Medicaid–a bleak picture gets bleaker
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/09/medicaida_bleak.html

Jeanne Scott looks at Single payer, MSAs and what employees want: I
editorialize back
http://matthewholt.typepad.com/the_health_care_blog/2003/09/jeanne_scott_lo.html