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

Medicaid Expansion/Lack of Expansion Plans: In A Map
Byadmin March 25, 2014

For anyone interested in health policy, Sarah Kliff at the Washington Post has perhaps the most useful and informative blog to be found. Here’s a picture she posted recently, showing the status of state Medicaid programs, in a post exploring which states she expects to be revisiting their decisions about how, or whether, to expand in…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health & Well-being

How Healthy Food Could Make You Fat
Byadmin December 17, 2014

Have you ever eaten a healthy meal, maybe some brown rice and stir-fried veggies, and found yourself ready for another meal just a short while later? Or, more often couldn’t overcome a hankering for a satisfying dessert to top off (and undermine the healthiness of) that meal? As it turns out, this lack of satiety…

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Health & Well-being | Health Policy

Follow-Up on My Stoplight Musings
Byadmin December 16, 2014

Recently, I posed some thoughts about why the stoplight warning symbols about to be used for food products in United Kingdom might be misleading. A blogger at BigThink.com picked up on my train of thought. Here is her piece: Color-Coded Nutrition Facts May Confuse Rather Than Inform Consumers by Natalie Shoemaker The obesity epidemic is…

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Health Policy

Dramatic Primary Care Changes in Ontario
Byadmin May 22, 2013

Healthcare systems are big and complex beasts, that are very hard to transform overnight. In the United States, for example, we have long had a system of care dominated by fee-for-service payment. In this kind of system, the more tests and procedures and office visits that a physician orders, the more that physician gets paid….

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Health Policy

Why Health Care Never Wins Elections
Byadmin October 14, 2008

Despite Barack Obama’s recent surge in the polls, much could change between now and election day. While it looks like this election will be decided by the economy, unexpected events could dramatically change the campaign narrative. Terrorists could conduct an attack inside the US. Obama, despite his two years of steady poise, could say something…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

Do patients need the numbers?
Byadmin April 20, 2011

An interesting article by Peter Schwartz in the latest Hastings Center Report on whether patients, facing difficult medical decisions, ought to get precise numbers on the risks and benefits of their alternatives. I contributed a commentary, urging researchers to keep developing better ways to help patients make rational use of the numbers.

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Economics Behaving Badly

Medicaid Expansion/Lack of Expansion Plans: In A Map

How Healthy Food Could Make You Fat

Follow-Up on My Stoplight Musings

Dramatic Primary Care Changes in Ontario

Why Health Care Never Wins Elections

Do patients need the numbers?

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