Is Health Insurance Too Cheap?

Byadmin April 30, 2012

Researchers at USC recently published a study designed to find out how much people are willing to pay for better drug coverage from their health insurance plan…(Read the rest and view comments at Scientocracy)

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

How Irrationality Can Reduce Traffic Jams
Byadmin July 16, 2012

In Singapore, rush hour at the Mass Rapid Transit trains can involve more body contact than a full on TSA pat down, the train so packed you will know whether the guy next to you had garlic toast for breakfast. Because of this crowding, someone in the Transit office decided to give people a 10%…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Incentive to Stop Smoking?
Byadmin April 9, 2015

In the United States, the FDA tried to mandate that cigarette companies put nasty images of the harms of smoking onto cigarette packages, images that would take up at least half of the carton. It looks like that effort has failed, because the courts have determined that it violates the First Amendment. I wonder what…

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Health Insurance Trends in One Picture
Byadmin January 7, 2016

Here is data from the CDC, on the percent of Americans without health insurance. It shows that Obamacare, for all its strengths and weaknesses, is definitely addressing one major problem in the US:

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

The Hidden Psychology of Antibiotic Prescribing
Byadmin March 30, 2015

Experts in decision psychology and behavioral economics have conclusively shown that humans, those silly creatures, are not always rational decision makers. They let unconscious forces influence their thinking, and not always for the better. But of course, doctors aren’t human. Right? Well, here is some evidence of just how human we doctors are. The odds…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health & Well-being

Heroin and Happiness
Byadmin March 5, 2009

Quick: What do you get when you mix a Nobel Prize winner with a MacArthur genius? You get this: “The claims of some heavy drinkers and smokers that they want to but cannot end their addictions seem to us no different from the claims of single persons that they want to but are unable to…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

‘Immunity passports’ could be doomed by false-positive antibody tests (Washington Post)
Bypeter May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Antibody testing has accelerated in the United States in recent weeks: In one prominent study, for example, involving some 3,000 New Yorkers, roughly 14 percent of state residents were found to have been exposed to the virus — and 1 in 5 in New York City. Some proponents of such tests believe they could pave…

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Is Health Insurance Too Cheap?

How Irrationality Can Reduce Traffic Jams

Incentive to Stop Smoking?

Health Insurance Trends in One Picture

The Hidden Psychology of Antibiotic Prescribing

Heroin and Happiness

‘Immunity passports’ could be doomed by false-positive antibody tests (Washington Post)

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