Health care is confusing
Austin Frakt October 24, 2010
The following is based on a long response to some very good questions in the comments to a prior post. In the realm of health
The following is based on a long response to some very good questions in the comments to a prior post. In the realm of health
I largely agree with Alec MacGillis’s take in a Washington Post piece that officially publishes tomorrow: Health-care providers in the United States have tremendous power
Joshua Wright and Judd Stone make a provocative accusation and a bold claim in their new paper “Misbehavioral Economics: The Case Against Behavioral Antitrust”: Proponents
It costs more than a cent to mint a penny (two cents, in fact). Nickels cost 9 cents to mint. Of course some of that is
In a NY Times blog post, Peter Orszag picks up where David Leonhardt left off (see also, this) in illustrating how Medicare can purchase care more
If you haven’t read the introduction, go back and read it now. That introductory post also includes links to all the posts in this series
Low-Cost Lessons from Grand Junction, Colorado, by Thomas Bodenheimer. FTC and DOJ Publish Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Hutton & Williams LLP. Health Reform and Market
I’ve seem some comments that suggest that folks don’t get why employers offer health insurance today. After all, they argue, (1) it costs employers something
I’ve been wondering this myself. Finally someone–turns out Kevin Drum–explains. Officially, they say it’s because they feel obligated to defend all properly enacted federal laws as
Since I’m not a professional blogger, I can’t cover all developments in health care and comment on all opinions that appear in major papers. I
Ezra Klein blogs, Farhad Manjoo’s piece on the collapsing distinction between blog posts and Web articles (or even normal articles) hasn’t attracted as much bloggy navel-gazing