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

When Harry and Louise Met Hillary
Byadmin February 17, 2012

As part of the Duke undergraduate course I teach on health care policy, I recently prepared a lecture on Bill Clinton’s ultimately futile efforts to reform the US health care system early in his first term of office, back in 1993. This preparation gave me an excuse to read Theda Skocpol’s wonderful book, Boomerang.
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Old Practices Die Hard
Byadmin June 3, 2015

Below is a recent article in U.S. News and World Report, written by Niam Yaraghi of the Brookings Institution, on why doctors continue to perform expensive and unnecessary tests like prostate cancer screening. Unnecessary and harmful medical procures are a major source of waste in the U.S. health care system. Prostate-specific antigen-based screening (or PSA-based…

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Is the Nutritional Supplement Industry Feeding You Bull Balls for Breakfast?
Byadmin June 26, 2014

My patient had been feeling unusually irritable lately. Nothing had changed in his home or work life to bring on such a shift in mood. He wasn’t taking any medicines that could cause such symptoms either, being a strappingly healthy young guy. A weightlifter in fact. “Are you taking any kind of steroids?,” I asked…

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Putting the Sin in Sin Tax
Byadmin December 5, 2014

With Thanksgiving behind us, many Americans will not assemble together for a home-cooked meal again for a while. By some estimates, people living in large cities consume the majority of their meals outside the home — at restaurants, coffee shops, bars and food trucks. No surprise, then, that anti-obesity policies are increasingly focused on helping Americans…

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One Price Does Not Fit All for Medical Fees
Byadmin February 4, 2013

In the New York Times on Friday, Roni Caryn Rabin writes a great article about the crazy price hikes that hospitals and medical clinics impose upon patients who come to them from “out of the network.” Examples include a more than $6,000 doctor visit, one for which Medicare would have paid less than $200. Examples…

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Are Insurance Companies the Key to Lower Prices?
Byadmin October 1, 2012

Two patients lie asleep on operating room tables, each with an inflamed appendix demanding to be relocated to a specimen jar. Two operations take place, each one lasting close to fifty minutes, each one performed by an experienced surgeon at a state-of-the-art U.S. hospital. One operation was priced at $1200 dollars. But the other one…

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What Does Health Insurance Consolidation Mean for You?

When Harry and Louise Met Hillary

Old Practices Die Hard

Is the Nutritional Supplement Industry Feeding You Bull Balls for Breakfast?

Putting the Sin in Sin Tax

One Price Does Not Fit All for Medical Fees

Are Insurance Companies the Key to Lower Prices?

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