What Do People Think About When Choosing Health Insurance Plans?
Here is a discussion I had with Tess Vigeland of Los Angeles Public Radio about the psychology of choosing health plans. (Click here to view comments)
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Want to Learn How to Use Social Media?
I am participating in a panel presentation, here at Duke University’s CIEMAS center, helping faculty think about when or whether to use social media to promote their work. I’ll be talking about blogging and tweeting and all that other stuff. Here are some details: Duke faculty are invited to take part in a two-hour social…
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Another Reason Why It Is so Difficult to Adapt to Chronic Pain
I have done a fair amount of research exploring people’s ability to adapt to a wide range of illnesses and disabilities, too emotionally recover from these difficult circumstances more than the could have imagined. But chronic pain is one of those health conditions that many people find very difficult to adapt to emotionally. One reason…
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Why Discussing the Cost of an MRI to Evaluate Knee Pain Can Be a Total Pain
I want to share a wonderful blog post with you, written by one of “my” students, Laura Mortimer – a student in the Masters in Public Policy program at the Sanford School at Duke, who also happens to be a talented writer. In linking to her post, and then calling her my student, I of course…
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On Advertising
“Advertising is legalized lying.” – H.G. Wells (Click here to view comments)
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Obamacare and the End of Employer-Based Health Insurance
According to the American Action Forum, 43 million American workers will lose access to employer-based health insurance coverage because of Obamacare. Critics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have warned that the creation of health insurance exchanges, and federal subsidies for people earning less than 400% of the federal poverty limit, practically invites employers to stop offering coverage to their employees, so…
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Newsweek Tackles the Challenge of Money Talk
In response to the New England Journal article I published with Yousuf Zafar and Amy Abernethy, Newsweek chimed in this week with a report on the topic, including some thoughtful commentary from other medical experts. I thought it was worth pointing you towards this article, in part to remind you that Newsweek still exists, and…
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On Distractions
Widower Woodrow Wilson fell in love with Edith Galt in 1915. The President’s doorkeeper summarized the situation tersely: “She’s a looker; he’s a goner.” (Click here to view comments)
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More on Advertising Junk Food to Kids
I recently posted a blog showing what television channels are most commonly used to advertise junk food to kids. Here’s a couple other pictures illustrating some fascinating facts about such advertising. First, the advertisements don’t seem to place as much emphasis on food as they do for adult advertisements: And why is that? Because they…
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7 Ingredients of a Successful HuffPo Headline
Put A Number In The Headline For example: “7 Ingredients of a Successful HuffPo Headline”