Showing posts with label The Incidental Economist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Incidental Economist. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Why insurance is essential

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This post gets to the heart of the reason why I consider the "insurance" piece of health insurance to be the less important part ....
Monday, August 26, 2013

Health Care and Complexity

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Aaron Carroll : That said, if you want to have a discussion on the merits of making the American Health Care system look like Singapore’s,...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

A couple more thoughts on Oregon

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Aaron Carroll (writing for the Incidental Economist) points out one interesting result of the new study: Not too long ago, ACA opponents...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Oregon and Medicaid

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The new Oregon Medicaid study is coming out at a very bad time for me to comment.  But I want to direct you to the Incidental Economist whi...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Health Insurance Question

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Austin Frakt on John Goodman's proposals in Priceless :  Anyway, the main rule John doesn’t like is community rating. He explains the...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Why is investment in human capital out of favor?

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David Brooks : The final thing the comment suggests is that Romney knows nothing about ambition and motivation. The formula he sketches i...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Government Health Care

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Aaron Caroll: There are plenty of things that government does poorly. Or, at least you can make that argument, and find some support for i...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

AHRQ Questions

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The Incidental Economist is writing about a House Bill to remove AHRQ as an agency and to remove economic research from the National Instit...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Today's required reading

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On this blog, we have been talking about budget deficits on the blog recently and I thought that some perspective on the factors driving the...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Misleading chart of the day

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First, consider this chart (as reproduced by Matthew Yglesias ): Now examine Aaron Carroll's great rebuttal ! In general, I think...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Megan McArdle is on hiatus

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But there are people carrying on her work .  The argument in Avik Roy's most recent piece (a guest blogger at the Atlantic) seems to be...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Added Sugars

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From Aaron Carroll : As we talk about how hard it is to combat obesity, it’s worth thinking about numbers like this once in a while. If we...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

MedicAid

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MedicAid is extremely cost-effective (at least by the standards of US medicine) and protects some of the most vulnerable citizens of the rep...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Student Loans and Emergencies

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From the Incidental Economist's comment section: As a resident manager of David’s House , a beautiful private nonprofit home away fro...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Defined Contribution Health Insurance

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Via Austin Frakt , there is an interesting piece on defined contribution health insurance . It is an interesting idea and likely not a bad ...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Agendas

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I think that this is correct : Less honest single-payer advocates ignore the issue entirely. More honest and thoughtful single-payer advocat...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Glycemic control and diabetes: today's evidence

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This paper has the potential to be pretty important: Intensive glycaemic control for patients with type 2 diabetes: systematic review with ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Tax Levels

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From Don Talyor : If we adopted 21% of GDP as a future target for balancing the budget, we would be saying government spending will be less ...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Health Care Costs

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We have known for a while that the United States spends a lot on health care . What is interesting is that the direction seems to be moving...
Monday, November 7, 2011

One of the risks of living is dying

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From the incidental economist : I can hear the howls of protest already. But here’s the example I always go to: the number one killer of ch...