Seth A. Berkowitz
@sethaberkowitz.bsky.social
I use biochemical reactions to convert burritos into scientific manuscripts.
Order Equal Care here: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12917/equal-care
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Order Equal Care here: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12917/equal-care
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Also, check out the rest of the great articles in the @adapubs.bsky.social Diabtes Care Special Collection relating to the symposium on How to Fix a Broken Healthcare System at the 2025 @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social ADA Scientific Sessions #diabetes
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Also, check out the rest of the great articles in the @adapubs.bsky.social Diabtes Care Special Collection relating to the symposium on How to Fix a Broken Healthcare System at the 2025 @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social ADA Scientific Sessions #diabetes
3) high U.S. healthcare spending is mostly driven by high prices, which are in turn the result of our private, multi-payer approach to healthcare finance that precludes the monopsony power needed to control prices, and 4) how we can get better even, or perhaps especially, in the current moment.
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
3) high U.S. healthcare spending is mostly driven by high prices, which are in turn the result of our private, multi-payer approach to healthcare finance that precludes the monopsony power needed to control prices, and 4) how we can get better even, or perhaps especially, in the current moment.
In more detail: I discuss 1) why the problems are less interrelated than they are often presented to be, 2) that the roots of poor population health lie in inequitable social policy, rather than healthcare
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In more detail: I discuss 1) why the problems are less interrelated than they are often presented to be, 2) that the roots of poor population health lie in inequitable social policy, rather than healthcare
This is a really helpful and clarifying post, thank you for it!
August 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is a really helpful and clarifying post, thank you for it!
Work requirements should have a work requirement: if they don’t work, we shouldn’t require them!
May 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Work requirements should have a work requirement: if they don’t work, we shouldn’t require them!
I think a key pathway that this has happened in society more generally (in addition to ‘local’ impacts within a firm) has been thru labor political parties getting into government, eg:
www.routledge.com/The-Democrat...
www.routledge.com/The-Democrat...
The Democratic Class Struggle
First published in 1983. This book combines a case study of class relations, politics and voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries...
www.routledge.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I think a key pathway that this has happened in society more generally (in addition to ‘local’ impacts within a firm) has been thru labor political parties getting into government, eg:
www.routledge.com/The-Democrat...
www.routledge.com/The-Democrat...
Just came across this and made me think it was relevant to your original questions as well (in the sense that “heavy” selection might be correlated with more trial engagement effects):
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266689/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266689/
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects - PubMed
Trial engagement effects are effects of trial participation on the outcome that are not mediated by treatment assignment. Most work on extending (generalizing or transporting) causal inferences from a...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Just came across this and made me think it was relevant to your original questions as well (in the sense that “heavy” selection might be correlated with more trial engagement effects):
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266689/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266689/
Congrats! Really important study!!
April 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Congrats! Really important study!!
Too kind!! Thanks so much!
April 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Too kind!! Thanks so much!