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Austin Frakt April 13, 2013
I saw this presented by Ashok Subramanian at the Leonard Davis Institute yesterday. It is marked as originating at the Wall Street Journal, but I
I saw this presented by Ashok Subramanian at the Leonard Davis Institute yesterday. It is marked as originating at the Wall Street Journal, but I
The Wall Street Journal has gotten this one wrong. Click over to the LDI site to find out why. The link is to my final
My interview of Kevin is here. @afrakt
This chart is a nice counterpoint to my post yesterday on how much competition we need in exchanges. The right answer isn’t always “more” even if
If gaming the denominator is a lower-cost response to the presence of public reporting than true improvements in quality, we should expect [it]. That’s from the
If you think the purpose of the individual mandate is to avert a death spiral by addressing health-based selection into the insurance pool, I would
It’s not known what, precisely, is meant by “sufficient competition,” but whatever it is, it’s not what exists today in the health insurance market in
The US National Academy of Sciences reports on US health in a global perspective and the news is bad. Citizens of peer nations live longer than
You may have already heard quite a lot about consequences of the Massachusetts’ health reform. But, have you seen it all in charts? Now you
As I mentioned earlier, I’m at Amherst College for a few days talking to economics and premed students. At dinner tonight, one of the things
There has been an expression of concern among some analysts about the three-to-one age-based community rating of premiums in the ACA exchanges. You can basically throw all
For the rest of the week I will be the “blogger in residence” at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute (LDI). My presence on its pages coincides with