Is Health Insurance Too Cheap?

Byadmin April 30, 2012

Researchers at USC recently published a study designed to find out how much people are willing to pay for better drug coverage from their health insurance plan…(Read the rest and view comments at Scientocracy)

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The Primary Care Doctor Is Not In
Byadmin October 25, 2017

In a clever study, secret shoppers called primary care offices in an attempt to make a new patient appointment. People with Obamacare insurance, or “marketplace plans” in the below figure, had a hard time finding appointments. But so did people with traditional insurance. But there’s a bigger takeaway, one slightly obscured by the misleading y-axis,…

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Health Insurance Is About Financial Security Too
Byadmin April 6, 2015

People like me, trained to be physicians, have pushed hard to promote health insurance in the United States because we believe, with some evidence to back up our claims, that good health insurance promotes better health. When people don’t have insurance, they delay necessary medical care for too long, and their health suffers as a…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost

Does Your Oncologist Care About Your Quality of Life?
Byadmin July 19, 2012

Facing advanced cancer, who among us wouldn’t look to our oncologist for expert advice on whether another round of chemotherapy makes sense? But do you know what your oncologist cares about, and can you be sure her recommendations map onto your own treatment preferences? … (Read the rest and view comments at Critical Decisions)

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

Angered By High Health Care Spending? Here’s What Maryland Is Doing
Byadmin August 12, 2019January 15, 2020

US healthcare spending is maddeningly high. As in: fifty percent higher than what other wealthy countries spend, with no evidence we’re getting any bang for all those additional healthcare bucks. In 2014, the state of Maryland took direct aim at this profitless profligacy, enacting a bold (dare I say European?) approach : it gave hospitals fixed…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

If You Want to Avoid a C-Section Choose Your Hospital Wisely
Byadmin March 6, 2019

We have an epidemic of C-sections in the US, now accounting for almost 1 in 3 births. That represents a 50% increase since the mid-90s, despite all the advances we’ve seen in obstetrical care. Sometimes C-sections are critical to saving the life of either baby or mother. But C-sections are major surgical procedures, with commensurate risks….

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Here’s Why I’m Guilty Of Experimenting On People
Byadmin March 20, 2015

Last summer, Facebook received terrible press for running experiments on its users, adjusting the proportion of happy and unhappy posts at the top of people’s news feeds to see how that effected their moods. Shortly after that controversy surfaced, OK-Cupid founder Christian Rudder proudly announced “we experiment on human beings.” He unabashedly admitted that he…

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Is Health Insurance Too Cheap?

The Primary Care Doctor Is Not In

Health Insurance Is About Financial Security Too

Does Your Oncologist Care About Your Quality of Life?

Angered By High Health Care Spending? Here’s What Maryland Is Doing

If You Want to Avoid a C-Section Choose Your Hospital Wisely

Here’s Why I’m Guilty Of Experimenting On People

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