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    • Health Affairs authors respond to criticism. Maybe mine.
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    Recent Publications:
    "Why Now Is Not the Time for Premium Support" (NEJM, 2012). [post]

    “The Effects of Market Structure and Payment Rates on Private Medicare Health Plan Entry” (Inquiry, forthcoming). [working paper]

    “Uninsured Persons with Disability Confront Substantial Barriers to Health Care Services” (Disability and Health Journal 4:238-244, 2011). [summary]

    "Should Medicare Adopt the Veterans Health Administration Formulary?" (Health Economics, 2011). [summary]

    "Our Flawed but Beneficial Medicaid Program" (NEJM, 2011). [ungated]

    "Does Health Care Cost Shifting Exist? A Review of the Evidence," (The Milbank Quarterly 89(1), 2011). [working paper version]

    "The Future of Health Care Costs: Hospital-Insurer Balance of Power" (National Institute for Health Care Management, Nov. 2010). [PDF].

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