Why people hate health reform

Byadmin March 22, 2011

Here is a link to an Op-Ed I wrote with two colleagues at Duke, in which we provide a novel explanation for why so many Americans hate Obamacare.

Political Psychology

Cass Sunstein Takes on the Death Panel Myth
Byadmin April 16, 2013

I wrote a while back about some research I conducted with Jason Reifler and Brendan Nyhan on how fact checking influences people’s belief in whether Obamacare created death panels, to decide which old or disabled peoples to kill. Yesterday, Cass Sunstein wrote about our study, and mused on several really interesting related issues. Check out…

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Health Policy

Medicaid Reform Ain’t Easy
Byadmin April 5, 2019

All the Republican health care bills that have so far failed to pass through Congress have tried to reduce Medicaid spending, by limiting the amount of federal money going to states to cover this population. That might be popular among some conservative voters, who think Medicaid is a handout to healthy but lazy young people…

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Ethics | Health Policy

High Healthcare Costs — Are Insurance Premiums a Cause or an Effect?
Byadmin September 13, 2019January 6, 2020

In 2010, the state of Rhode Island decided to tackle high healthcare costs. It did so by requiring insurers to meet affordability standards. The plan worked, but not for the reasons you probably suspect. Let’s start with what Rhode Island’s standards look like. It required several things of insurers: Premium caps – with annual inflation equal…

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Health Policy

Malpractice Claims Feel Endless Because…They Are!
Byadmin June 21, 2013

I am very fortunate to have never been sued. That is not necessarily because of my amazing ability as a physician. I always practiced in Veterans Affairs medical centers, where my status as a federal employee meant I would not get sued by my patients. I also had an incredibly appreciative patient population. But I…

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Health Policy

Solving the Primary Care Physician Shortage by Turning PCPs into Anesthesiologists
Byadmin February 18, 2013

Are there really too few primary care physicians? And if so, what can we do to solve the PCP shortage? The standard answer to the first question is “yes, we have too few PCPs.” And the standard solution is to train more such docs, or allow more foreign-trained primary care docs into the country or,…

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Health Care Cost | Health Policy

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.

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Why people hate health reform

Cass Sunstein Takes on the Death Panel Myth

Medicaid Reform Ain’t Easy

High Healthcare Costs — Are Insurance Premiums a Cause or an Effect?

Malpractice Claims Feel Endless Because…They Are!

Solving the Primary Care Physician Shortage by Turning PCPs into Anesthesiologists

Podcast on the Challenge of De-adoption

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