Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

Economics Behaving Badly

Byadmin July 15, 2010

George Loewenstein and I have an Op-Ed in the New York Times today. Check it out, and feel free to add your comments.

Health Policy

Procedures and Prices: Both Contribute to Health Care Spending Increases
Byadmin August 15, 2013

For very good reason, there has been lots of attention on healthcare prices in the United States lately. We spend more on healthcare in this country than anywhere else in the world, and we also charge higher prices for the healthcare we offer. Physicians in the United States make much more than their counterparts elsewhere…

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Health Policy

Solving the Primary Care Physician Shortage by Turning PCPs into Anesthesiologists
Byadmin February 18, 2013

Are there really too few primary care physicians? And if so, what can we do to solve the PCP shortage? The standard answer to the first question is “yes, we have too few PCPs.” And the standard solution is to train more such docs, or allow more foreign-trained primary care docs into the country or,…

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Health Policy

Setting Priorities in Targeting Health Care Quality
Byadmin March 6, 2014

Measuring healthcare quality has become a veritable cottage industry. Quality measures are proliferating so quickly that the Department of Health and Human Services has created a, and I’m not making this up, “Quality Measures Clearinghouse”. At last count, it included more than 2100 such measures. When it comes to health care quality, if you measure…

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Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Price Transparency at its WORST
Byadmin February 13, 2013

You may have heard this week about a new study, led by my friend and colleague Pete Cram, which revealed astonishing variation in prices for hip replacement surgery. Staggering, actually—ranging from a bit over $10,000 to over $125,000. I have blogged a bit about hospital prices, and doctor fees, even a recent post on orthopedic…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

This Is Not the Time to Worry About Paying for the Medical Care You Need
Bypeter April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

Here is a nice article by Dennis Thompson at HealthDay about the challenges people are going to face paying for medical care, especially if they’ve lost or been laid off from their jobs. I chime in at the end URGING people not to worry about money right now if they are sick. Get the care…

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Health Policy

Higher Health Insurance Deductibles, Smaller Wallets
Byadmin February 26, 2013

With health care costs rising, employers (and insurance companies) are increasingly asking consumers (aka “patients”) to have more “skin in the game”—to pay more out of pocket for their medical care. The Kaiser Family Foundation has a nice report on trends in health insurance deductibles. This picture shows the rise in these deductibles. That means:…

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Economics Behaving Badly

Procedures and Prices: Both Contribute to Health Care Spending Increases

Solving the Primary Care Physician Shortage by Turning PCPs into Anesthesiologists

Setting Priorities in Targeting Health Care Quality

Price Transparency at its WORST

This Is Not the Time to Worry About Paying for the Medical Care You Need

Higher Health Insurance Deductibles, Smaller Wallets

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