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 Over at Forbes, Avik Roy is crowing about an unpublished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
Friends just sent me this. “Beers Implicated in Emergency Room Visits“. That’s from the NYT: Nationwide, roughly a third of all visits to emergency rooms
I was walking to the office while reading today’s Wonkbook, and I was struck by this: Conservative elites had two options when Democrats began to
Let’s start with the basics: Indoor tanning is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer, especially among frequent users and those initiating use at
