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Proving why he is THE health care economist, Uwe Reinhardt explains how, why many other countries are very different in how they provide insurance to
Proving why he is THE health care economist, Uwe Reinhardt explains how, why many other countries are very different in how they provide insurance to
Speaking of the perversions of politics, here’s another one (Wall Street Journal): The final health-care bill is likely to require coverage for more mammograms than
The Obama Administration is looking for ideas in the area of taxing financial transactions. Ezra Klein asked for thoughts. Even though I haven’t read deeply
I want to highlight a few ideas from yesterday’s post by Randall Brown and his Kaiser Family Foundation report upon which it is based. First
In response to my summer project ideas bleg GrandArch suggested a focus on the differences between U.S. and European economies. He, and others, may find
The tax by which reform is paid seems to be shaping up as the last big battle to be fought between the House and the
A lot of well-meaning people and good ideas can get tarnished when they enter the realm of politics. Take Jon Gruber, who’s been in Krugman’s
The following is a guest post by Randall Brown, Vice President and Director of Health Research at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. He is a nationally
There are (at least) two issues pertaining to health care premiums and wages. I emphasized one, the one-to-one trade-off between premium and wage level. Larry
If you go to any page on The Incidental Economist you’ll now see a list of recent posts at the top of the middle column.
It would be easy if I just agreed with Paul Krugman about everything. But I don’t always. Yet, sometimes I do. And he writes well.
The report on Jon Gruber’s (un)disclosed conflict of interest has been making the rounds. I’ve been talking about it with a number of people all