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“Doctor, First Tell Me What It Costs” – The New York Times
Price Transparency Thoughts from a Thought Leader (And Former Student)
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Here is a great piece on my former student, Jessica Harris, who now works in health care price transparency at Aetna. She visited my class this summer, and here are some of the things she taught them: The evolution of transparency in the industry: “2013 and 2014 have been really important years for transparency and…
Nudging Docs with Threatening Letters
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I recently spoke with Margot Sanger-Katz at the New York Times. She’s an awesome healthcare reporter. She wrote a nice piece on some recent nudging research. Here’s the beginning of the article to whet your appetite: The letters doctors received from the county medical examiner included a shocking fact: A patient you once prescribed an…
Why We Cannot Trust Political Pundits, or Ourselves
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Take a look at the image below and decide what you are seeing: Some of you might have seen a “B.” Others might have seen the number 13. The image, after all, is ambiguous. For that reason, in fact, it was used by researchers to study how our hopes influence our perceptions. The study design…
Obamacare Is Experimenting on Us (Does That Make Us Frankenstein or Fusilli?)
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(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Obamacare is a large, unwieldy law. Despite its complexity, most people are familiar with its most important elements. They know it created a marketplace where people can shop for healthcare insurance; many are even aware that the cost of that insurance is subsidized for people with lower incomes. Others realize…