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.

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

What Socialized Medicine Would Mean for Your Health
Byadmin December 20, 2018

Americans are not fans of socialized medicine. Sure, some people want socialized healthcare payment, including many people who are fans of Medicare for All. But even most Bernie Sanders supporters probably aren’t in favor of socializing the entire U.S. healthcare system, thereby making hospitals and medical clinics into government property. Americans are proud of the…

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Health & Well-being | Health Policy

Uncovered: In America, Insurance Doesn’t Guarantee Access and Coverage Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered
Byadmin August 13, 2019January 15, 2020

Something like one in seven people living in the US have no healthcare insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured people has grown by 7 million since Trump has become president. (Make America Uninsured Again?) These numbers are atrocious. Embarrassing. Shameful, actually, in a country as wealthy as ours. We need to recommit ourselves to guaranteeing people access…

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Tax Me Baby: The True Cost of Coke
Byadmin May 23, 2010

Taxes are inevitable, or so they say. How much we should tax our citizenry, however, is debatable. Tea party members think we tax too much, and many liberals think we don’t tax quite enough. I’m not going to take a position on the overall tax burden right now. Instead, I’ll point out two things I…

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Is the American Healthcare System Addicted to Expensive Drugs?
Byadmin October 15, 2013

To almost every claim that the American healthcare system is overpriced, defenders of the United States can point to the comparison problem—it is not fair to compare American surgeons, or hospitals, to our peers in Europe when American surgeons and hospitals are not the same as in those other countries. Our surgeons are better trained,…

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Are Rare Diseases Too Expensive to Treat?
Byadmin September 6, 2012

See this great piece by a reporter at Forbes discussing why rare disease treatments can cost as much as $400,000 per patient, per year. You will get a glimpse of my take on this topic too, but I plan on writing more about it in the future.

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Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Podcast on the Challenge of De-adoption
Byadmin March 25, 2015

Here is a podcast I participated in, put out by folks at GWU. A quickish interview on the challenge of getting doctors to stop doing things they ought to stop doing. You can also listen to it on iTunes, or on Stitcher.

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Insurance Woes

What Socialized Medicine Would Mean for Your Health

Uncovered: In America, Insurance Doesn’t Guarantee Access and Coverage Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered

Tax Me Baby: The True Cost of Coke

Is the American Healthcare System Addicted to Expensive Drugs?

Are Rare Diseases Too Expensive to Treat?

Podcast on the Challenge of De-adoption

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