Clinical Integration & Antitrust
Ian Crosby October 11, 2010
That’s the title and topic of the latest edition of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle out today. The contents include: Clinical Integration: The Balancing of Competition
That’s the title and topic of the latest edition of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle out today. The contents include: Clinical Integration: The Balancing of Competition
My interest in health care cost shifting goes way back (the cost shift tag will take you to all my cost shifting posts). For the
The employer mandate in Massachusetts has a very weak penalty, just $295 per employee per year. That’s far below health insurance premiums and the ACA’s
Jason Shafrin is the only other health economist I’m aware of who routinely blogs. He deserves some credit for reviewing literature and posting references. His
In the health care cost shifting debate there are two hypotheses. One is that lower Medicare reimbursements motivate hospitals to seek higher payments from private
The 2009 Kaiser/HRET employer health benefits survey found that employees pay 17% of the $4,824 annual premium for single coverage and 27% of the $13,375
Another literature review on the relationship between health insurance and mortality and health outcomes has been posted on Ezra Klien’s blog. This one is by
This is a guest post by J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, assistant professor of health care policy and of medicine at Harvard Medical School and
Not only do I believe McArdle has badly misread (or not read) the literature on the relationship between health insurance and health outcomes, including mortality,
Apparently Megan McArdle is not convinced that health insurance promotes health. I assume she (and any reasonable minded individual) would agree that death can be
There seems to be a bit of a debate going about the extent to which health insurance premiums relate to wage levels. This question has
One of Ezra Klein’s posts today makes the point that the U.S. health care cost issue is largely about prices, as opposed to volume. He