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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

Insurance Woes
Byadmin June 18, 2014

A great cartoon from the Kaiser Health News website that pithily captures the “wonders” of the American health insurance system. (Click here to view comments)

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Health Policy

How Price Transparency Could End Up Increasing Health-Care Costs
Byadmin April 9, 2013

Getting your appendix out can cost between $2,000 and $180,000. Hip replacements run from $10,000 to more than $100,000. Hospitals, we have also learned, frequently mark up the price of cotton swabs and routine X-rays by 300 or 400 percent, with most patients oblivious to the reason their health care bills are so large. As a response to…

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Health & Well-being | Health Policy

The True Cost Of Low Drug Prices
Byadmin January 5, 2015

India is not, yet, a wealthy country. Nevertheless its people experience many of the same expensive-to-treat illnesses as wealthier populations in the U.S. and Europe. Therefore the country has made a series of policy decisions designed to lower the cost of medical treatments. For example, until 2005, it offered no – I repeat, no –…

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Health Policy

More on High Deductible Insurance Plans
Byadmin February 27, 2013

In my previous post, I showed a powerful picture (from the Kaiser Family Foundation) of the growth in high deductible insurance plans. Here is another picture from that same report, showing that the high end of these high ends is getting really high. (Click here to view comments)

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Does Anybody Want to Pay for Depression Treatment?
Byadmin April 10, 2012

Imagine for a moment you are suffering from an illness that makes you feel like your soul has been run over by an angry defensive lineman, a disease that interferes with your desire to sleep, eat and make love. Oh, and this illness will continue to make you feel this way for the rest of your life. How much would you be willing to pay for a treatment makes you feel normal again?
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Bad News for Primary Care Providers Serving Medicaid Populations
Byadmin March 19, 2013

According to a recent Forbes post: “A huge pay raise promised under the Affordable Care Act for primary care doctors who treat the nation’s poor covered by Medicaid health insurance is nearly three months behind schedule and may take another three months before it kicks in.” I suggest you look at the entire essay, because…

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Economics Behaving Badly

Insurance Woes

How Price Transparency Could End Up Increasing Health-Care Costs

The True Cost Of Low Drug Prices

More on High Deductible Insurance Plans

Does Anybody Want to Pay for Depression Treatment?

Bad News for Primary Care Providers Serving Medicaid Populations

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