What Do People Think About When Choosing Health Insurance Plans?

Byadmin November 20, 2013

CA NPR Here is a discussion I had with Tess Vigeland of Los Angeles Public Radio about the psychology of choosing health plans.
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The Challenge of Predicting Future Medicare Expenses
Byadmin June 18, 2013

As I pointed out in a recent post, experts have been debating what has caused the recent slowdown in medical spending in the United States. They are also try to figure out whether that slowdown will continue. And figuring this out is pretty darn important, because it has a major impact on how we budget…

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It's Physician Pay, Stupid!
Byadmin August 21, 2012

In 2006, health-care expenditures in the U.S. rose 6%, a rate of growth significantly higher than inflation and one that, if sustained, would lead to a doubling in health-care spending in a mere dozen years. Some of that extra spending was a function of more doctors doing more things to more people—an increasing number of…

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Most provocative sentence of the week?
Byadmin January 19, 2012

Whatever you think of Plan B, the emergency contraceptive pill that the Obama administration decided to keep behind pharmacy counters rather than let women and girls buy it OTC, you have to admit that the New England Journal authors wrote a heck of a provocative sentence, after reviewing the number of scientific committees that had deemed the medication safe. (The article is by Wood, Drazen and Greene, from January 12.) After pointing out that adolescent girls can already buy lethal doses of Tylenol OTC without any questions asked, and after explaining that the only known risks of Plan B are nausea and delayed menses, they land a hard punch right on the jaw of the Obama administration:
“Any objective review makes it clear that Plan B is more dangerous to politicians than to adolescent girls.”
Ouch!

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Obamacare Chipping Away at Uninsured Numbers
Byadmin June 13, 2014

With all the hype and controversy over Obamacare, once in a while it’s nice to look at the facts. And here are recent numbers – on the percent of Americans who lack health insurance, a figure that has dropped significantly in recent months with the expansion of Medicaid and the opening of the health insurance…

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Do the Obamacare Subsidies Make the Individual Mandate Unnecessary?
Byadmin March 25, 2013

Lost in all the confusion about Obamacare is the fact that the law relies on more than just the individual mandate to encourage people to buy health insurance. It also makes health insurance more affordable, especially for people at or below 400% of the federal poverty limit by subsidizing insurance for those folks. So do…

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To Uphold Campaign Promise, Dr. Oz Needs To Fix Medicare Drug Prices
Byadmin2 April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

During his campaign, President Trump promised to “end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” In honor of that promise, Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Medicare program, should address the enormous increase in what Medicare patients are being asked to pay for drugs. Medicare drug coverage is…

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What Do People Think About When Choosing Health Insurance Plans?

The Challenge of Predicting Future Medicare Expenses

It's Physician Pay, Stupid!

Most provocative sentence of the week?

Obamacare Chipping Away at Uninsured Numbers

Do the Obamacare Subsidies Make the Individual Mandate Unnecessary?

To Uphold Campaign Promise, Dr. Oz Needs To Fix Medicare Drug Prices

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