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Copay Assistance – Good For Patients, Bad For Prices
ByadminPeter Bach and I have an essay in the Annals of Internal Medicine laying out some of the problems with pharmaceutical funded copay assistance programs. Check it out.
What Do Cancer Centers Think Patients Are Looking For?
ByadminIf you were a cancer center trying to get patients to come to receive care at your facility, what message would you send them? In other words, what would you as a cancer center director think people would value in choosing a place to receive cancer care? One way to answer this would be to…
Free to be Obese?
ByadminA short video showing why our eating decisions are often not conscious, or wise.
In this video, part of a webcast being organized by Fuqua, I lay out some thoughts on the psychology of obesity. Check it out. I’ll post a Q and A video on this topic (with the Qs provided by Fuqua alums) in a couple weeks. Feel free to add your questions in the meantime, and I’ll try to cover them too!Clever Graphic to Stop Public Urination – Yes, Urination
ByadminLet’s face it – us men are disgusting. So public policy experts are left to figure out how to keep us from behaving in our normally disgusting manner. Here’s one approach (thanks to Geoff Riley for bringing it to my attention): Think it will work?
Merger Mania in Medicine — What Will It Cost Us?
ByadminThe federal government is currently debating whether the big six health insurance companies in the U.S. will soon become the big four. Aetna and Humana have announced plans to merge, as have Anthem and Cigna. The American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association strongly oppose the mergers, saying they will reduce competition in consumer…
