Cost Versus Access

I’ve said again and again that the PPACA is about access.  That shouldn’t be surprising, given the focus that the Democratic party has had on

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Cost shifting as it used to be

The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,”

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R and R

Don Taylor has something to say about the ACA’s CLASS provisions Your next paper review may be a tweet How publication bias works and why

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Something important

Until today I had not spent much time considering the CLASS provisions of the ACA. I had no idea if they were fiscally sound, in

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The CLASS Act, ctd.

For those who don’t read comments, I’m just reiterating some of the content of one I submitted a little while ago to my earlier post

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The CLASS Act

I have not done anything like a thorough investigation of the CLASS Act. However, I just stumbled across the following. Given the source and references,

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Forecasts and uncertainty

I need to come back to one thing related to the CBO’s work, and that of other budget forecasters. Long-range predictions are uncertain. Nobody should

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Health reform: Beyond the numbers

The Atlantic‘s Derek Thompson put it beautifully (via Jon Cohn): One side doesn’t want to spend more money to insure more Americans, and the other side

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