A reader points me to a study out in the New England Journal of Medicine this week. The abstract: Background When copayments for ambulatory care
The economist’s knock on employer based insurance is that it is paid with pre-tax dollars. That means that each dollar of worker compensation in the
Mark Pauly has published two interesting pieces relevant to health reform in the New England Journal of Medicine in the last month or so. Both
Speaker Pelosi weighs in. And she doesn’t like the idea: “There are some things that sound easy, but you might as well send somebody a
There’s a bit of a hubbub about a new study that many are touting as proof that abstinence-only education works. From the abstract: Outcome Measures
Sometime between 9PM last night and 4AM this morning the 500th individual subscribed to this blog’s feed. There is no significance to that fact beyond
I’ve been going off a bit about the difference between policy and politics and how to tell which is which. I’m not the only one.
The NY Times has a feature up today that compares predicted federal budget surplus (deficit) to what actually occurred (h/t Ezra Klein). Since I have
In a NY Times Economix post last November David Leonhardt interviewed Sandy Baum, an economist at the College Board and lead author of the its
Ugh. The NYT Prescriptions blog has the latest on the Democrats’ bad idea of breaking health care reform into parts: If Democrats break down their
Jon Cohn just published my guest post on The New Republic’s The Treatment blog. In it I continue my exploration of lessons learned from the
Andrew asked how current health reform legislation are steps toward the ideas I expressed in a prior post. The answers are that the Senate bill
