After going thru a major spring office cleaning and overhaul, I found a really intriguing report buried under books and papers. Well, intriguing for health care geeks…
The combination of two statistics adds a lot of clarity to the US health insurance picture. The two, health care inflation and the uninsured rate, have been combined into the HEMI (healthcare economic misery index). The HEMI is both descriptive and revealing, especially when tracked over time and used to compare states.
Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda