What Does Health Insurance Consolidation Mean for You?

Byadmin August 21, 2012

Listen to this Marketplace report on consolidation in the world of health insurance. It is an interesting report, and also the first public acknowledgment that I am, gulp, a Business Professor!

Health Policy

What Do People Think About When Choosing Health Insurance Plans?
Byadmin November 20, 2013

Here is a discussion I had with Tess Vigeland of Los Angeles Public Radio about the psychology of choosing health plans. (Click here to view comments)

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy | Health Policy

Avoiding the “R” Word in Health Policy Debates
Byadmin April 17, 2012

A couple of years ago I was invited to speak at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago, to discuss the morality of whether physicians should ration care from their patients.
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Procedures and Prices: Both Contribute to Health Care Spending Increases
Byadmin August 15, 2013

For very good reason, there has been lots of attention on healthcare prices in the United States lately. We spend more on healthcare in this country than anywhere else in the world, and we also charge higher prices for the healthcare we offer. Physicians in the United States make much more than their counterparts elsewhere…

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When It Came to Medicare Costs LBJ Concluded "What's $400 Million Between Friends!"
Byadmin January 24, 2014

Lyndon Johnson’s advisers were worried. They were drafting a Medicare proposal, a major component of Johnson’s war on poverty. But the cost of this program was turning out to be much larger than expected. By their estimates, in the first year alone, they would face $400 million more in expenditures than they had budgeted for….

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Where in the United States Do the Uninsured Live?
Byadmin December 19, 2013

In a recent post, I wrote about ethnic variation in the likelihood of going without health insurance. There’s also quite a bit of geographic variation in uninsurance, based on 2008 data – before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Here is a picture showing the percentage of people in the continental United States who…

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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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What Does Health Insurance Consolidation Mean for You?

What Do People Think About When Choosing Health Insurance Plans?

Avoiding the “R” Word in Health Policy Debates

Procedures and Prices: Both Contribute to Health Care Spending Increases

When It Came to Medicare Costs LBJ Concluded "What's $400 Million Between Friends!"

Where in the United States Do the Uninsured Live?

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

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