How is Obamacare going to affect me?
Austin Frakt August 23, 2013
From time to time, I solicit questions on Twitter. The following, edited for clarity and brevity, came by email. Even though the question relates to
From time to time, I solicit questions on Twitter. The following, edited for clarity and brevity, came by email. Even though the question relates to
Instead of dribbling out many posts on specific papers in this area, I’ve put a bunch together in one, monster post. It’s super long. But
UPDATE: When you’re done reading this post, go read this and this. Man, this has been a week. Just a few days ago, I wrote about
Every year the Kaiser Family Foundation releases their report on employer sponsored health insurance, and every year I write about it. There’s good news and
In response to Paul Krugman, and in my office I like to pretend, me, Karl Rove has penned a piece for the WSJ articulating the
The new Bloomberg View column by Adrianna McIntyre and me should clear up some pervasive confusion about the source of rate shock. Yes, research really does
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Law. Over at Forbes, Avik Roy is crowing about an unpublished
All seven are worth reading and discussing. Here’s just one: Challenge #2: Tell the American People the Truth It is stunning how hard it has
I’d just post the whole thing if I could. “A Call for an End to the Diet Debates” (emphasis mine): As the obesity epidemic persists,
Benjamin Handel’s paper “Adverse Selection and Inertia in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts” (forthcoming in the American Economic Review) is fascinating. It’s about two things: (1) “inertia”
Twitter brought me this gem this evening. It’s made by John Green, who is a New York Times bestselling author, and who also – it
Economic Models as Analogies, by Itzhak Gilboay, Andrew Postlewaitez, Larry Samuelson, and David Schmeidler, is, perhaps,* the best paper about the discipline of economics I’ve