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.

Health Policy

Don't Blame Obamacare for Health Insurance Turnover

Byadmin October 7, 2014

When the health insurance exchanges began operating last year, critics complained that people were being forced out of their insurance plans. They correctly pointed out that Obama was mistaken to promise that “if you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your plan.” Obama’s promise was wrong not because the Affordable Care…

Ethics | Health Policy

How not to let a crisis go to waste

Byadmin March 23, 2011

Here is a blog post I wrote for the Hastings Center, laying out some hopeful thoughts about how we can use Medicaid crises, which are occurring in so many states right now, to figure out how to control health care costs.

Ethics | Health Care Cost

Should Your Doctor Pray With You?

Byadmin March 18, 2013

“I can fix this.” The neurosurgeon was nothing if not confident. “The cyst is pushing on your spinal cord. If it continues to expand, it will damage your nerves and you may lose the ability to walk. But I can remove the cyst, and cure you.” The patient was a business school professor, a man…

Health Care Cost

American Healthcare Prices -Simply Outrageous

Bypeter January 29, 2020

When it comes to healthcare spending, the U.S. is without peer. Consider the 20 countries making up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (called the OECD by the cool kids). The organization includes countries like Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, and the Czech Republic. Oh also Finland, France, Germany…you get the idea. It also…

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

Medicare Costs and the Income Trap

Byadmin November 25, 2008

Paying Doctors Less Is the Key to Better Coverage Conservatives propose to control healthcare costs by bringing the discipline of the free market to bear upon the healthcare system. Some progressive groups advocate controlling costs with a more interventionist plan. But neither approach, as far as I have seen, adequately confronts one of the biggest…

Health Policy

Do U.S. Physicians Make Too Much Money?

Byadmin February 8, 2013

In September of 2011, Laugesen and colleagues looked at why health care in the US costs so much. Part of their analysis explored primary care physician fees. It showed that primary care docs in the US make a bit more, per office visit, than their colleagues in 5 other countries. But Americans are much less…

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