Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health & Well-being

Risky Business: Health Risk, Relativity, and Perception

Byadmin April 1, 2009

Patt Morrison of KPCC Radio in Southern California talks to me about how people make various rational and irrational decisions in their lives. CLICK HERE to listen.

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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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Care Cost | Health Policy

Healthcare.gov 3.0–Improving the Design of the Obamacare Exchanges
Byadmin February 19, 2015

I joined two other, much smarter, colleagues in calling for the use of behavioral economics and decision psychology to improve the design of the websites people use to purchase health insurance in the U.S. That article came out today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Here is a taste: In October 2013, the Affordable…

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Health & Well-being | Health Policy

Graphic Cigarette Labels Work!
Byadmin September 26, 2017

Warning – the warning labels pictured below are graphic but, according to a recent study, they increase the chances that people will quit smoking. Now we need to find a way to get legal permission to use such pictures, so we can shock people out of their habits.

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions
Byadmin November 7, 2011

See some coverage in Forbes on a debate I participated in at a recent meeting, discussing when decisions are really decisions and when nudges are really shoves.
Click here.

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Health & Well-being

Why No Uproar Over Ovarian Cancer Screening Guidelines?
Byadmin November 15, 2012

In September the United States Preventive Services Taskforce, a panel of medical experts, concluded that tests to screen for ovarian cancer do more harm than good. As a result, insurers will not be required by federal law to pay for such tests. And the announcement was met with near silence. Why was this recommendation greeted…

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Health & Well-being | Health Policy

Is the Government Trying to Make Us Fat?
Byadmin August 21, 2015

The FDA has proposed new labels on grocery store food products, that adjust serving sizes to more accurately capture what Americans eat. Research I conducted with Steven Dallas and Peggy Liu suggests these labels could be a problem. Here is a great media story on our findings: Last year, the Food and Drug Administration announced…

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Risky Business: Health Risk, Relativity, and Perception

Do patients need the numbers?

Healthcare.gov 3.0–Improving the Design of the Obamacare Exchanges

Graphic Cigarette Labels Work!

The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Why No Uproar Over Ovarian Cancer Screening Guidelines?

Is the Government Trying to Make Us Fat?

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