This is interesting: The NHS in England is to undergo a radical reorganisation, with GPs commissioning most services and the abolition of primary care trusts
Go read this post by Austin Frakt. He’s more forgiving than I am and takes a kinder tone, but I agree.
Product differentiation is the term for variations in characteristics of products within the same market. Without differentiation, products are commodities. Corn is corn, oil is
I’m interested in all sensible, good faith efforts to improve our health care system. Whenever I encounter a new idea I try to take it
A 2009 American Hospital Association paper expansively titled “The Case for Reinvigorating Antitrust Enforcement for Health Plan Mergers and Anticompetitive Conduct to Protect Consumers and
Tyler Cowen and Mark Thoma get credit for drawing my attention to George Loewenstein’s and Peter Ubel’s NY Times column on the limits of behavioral
Katherine Ho’s paper titled “Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market” (American Economic Review, 2009; ungated version available) models the bargaining process between insurers and
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
On The Health Care Blog, Roger Collier speculates about what might happen if the ACA’s individual mandate is struck down as unconstitutional. The reactions of
I think the ACA has lots of provisions that could, if allowed to work, slow the growth of public health costs (Medicare and Medicaid). What
Fracking is in the news. Normally I wouldn’t pay much attention. But we’re talking about a gerund whose root is a common misspelling of my
