Economics of Health Care

April 21, 2008

I Just Got $100,000 Worth of Consumer Surplus!

March 25, 2008

Publishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About

March 24, 2008

Sherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker

March 24, 2008

The Paperback Arrives

March 23, 2008

Peter Orszag on Health Care Costs

February 28, 2008

WHO's Health Rankings

February 14, 2008

Preventive Health Care is not a Free Lunch

February 13, 2008

A Health Care Proposal

February 12, 2008

Health Insurance Innovation?

February 4, 2008

Uncle Jonathan Wants You

February 1, 2008

A Health Care Experiment

January 31, 2008

The Massachusetts Health Care Tar-baby

January 30, 2008

My Ongoing Frustration

January 29, 2008

The Government Health Care System

January 28, 2008

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance

January 20, 2008

Medical Innumeracy in Super Crunchers

January 13, 2008

Posner vs. Becker

January 13, 2008

Liberal Fascism Watch

January 13, 2008

Singapore's Health Care System: A Free Lunch You Can Sink Your Teeth Into

January 9, 2008

Thoughts on Medicare

New Working Papers of Interest (December 31, 2007)
Premium Medicine: Proton Therapy (December 25, 2007)
What Nick is Reading (December 19, 2007)
Against Moneyball Medicine (December 18, 2007)
Are You Tired (December 14, 2007)
Orszag gives my talk (December 12, 2007)
Pragmatic Health Care Reform (November 28, 2007)
The Iceberg Groweth (November 20, 2007)
Blogging When I Should Have Been Betting (November 20, 2007)
Health Care Safety (November 19, 2007)
Comparative Health Care (November 14, 2007)
Jonathan Cohn Needs Masonomics (November 12, 2007)
Doctor-Patient Conversations (November 07, 2007)
Mankiw Scores One (November 06, 2007)
Kling and Mankiw on Health Care (November 05, 2007)
Another One of My Health Care Debate Peeves (October 31, 2007)
More Passengers on the Titanic (October 30, 2007)
Maggie Mahar vs. Arnold Kling (October 24, 2007)
Random Things to Read (October 24, 2007)
A Quibble with Tyler (October 19, 2007)
Single-Payer: Klein vs. Kling (October 18, 2007)
Doctors' Statistical Ignorance (October 17, 2007)
Senator McCain on Health Care (October 12, 2007)
Overtreated (October 10, 2007)
Mandatory Health Insurance? (October 07, 2007)
More on Journalists (October 05, 2007)
Ending Aging (September 19, 2007)
Proposals for Health Care Stasis (September 18, 2007)
Fogel Compares Health Systems (September 16, 2007)
Doctors as Oracles (September 12, 2007)
How Contrarian is the Hansonian View of Medicine? (September 12, 2007)
Robin Hanson Unbound (September 10, 2007)
Another Reason To Doubt Infant Mortality Data (September 08, 2007)
I Will Live to Be 87 (August 31, 2007)
He's Not an Economist (August 09, 2007)
Reality and Health Care Spending (August 08, 2007)
Are They All Orphans? (August 08, 2007)
Universal Coverage? I say Ma-a-a-a-ah (August 07, 2007)
Ken Rogoff and a Health Care Fallacy (August 05, 2007)
Thoma Takes on Robert J. Samuelson (August 01, 2007)
Physician Pay (August 01, 2007)
Primary Care Doctors vs. Specialists (July 25, 2007)
Medical Paradigm (July 24, 2007)
Andy Stern on Health Care (July 24, 2007)
Doctors and Waiting Times (July 24, 2007)
Opposition to Single-Payer Health Care (July 10, 2007)
On the Health Care Front (July 08, 2007)
Austan Goolsbee on Health Care (July 02, 2007)
Health Care Op-Ed (June 30, 2007)
Why No Electronic Medical Records? (June 27, 2007)
In which Max discovers a tic (June 21, 2007)
Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko" (June 21, 2007)
The Height of Brave Interpretation (June 18, 2007)
The Crux of Health Care Reform (June 12, 2007)
Brad DeLong's Health Care Prescription (June 10, 2007)
I Get Noticed (June 06, 2007)
Health Care Cynicism (May 29, 2007)
A Controversial Health Insurance Metaphor (May 15, 2007)
Should I Get LASIK? (May 14, 2007)
Health Care and the Consumer (May 14, 2007)
Hanson on Hanson (May 08, 2007)
Do the Overweight Pull Their Weight? (April 27, 2007)
Tyler Cowen Channels Uwe Reinhardt (April 23, 2007)
A Headline Tells the Single-Payer Story (April 20, 2007)
Downplaying the Uninsured (April 20, 2007)
Breast Cancer: a Hansonian Tale (April 19, 2007)
Becker on Health Insurance (April 16, 2007)
Jason Furman's Health Care Plan (April 11, 2007)
Arlo's Single Payer Plan (April 10, 2007)
Medicare, the U.S., and France (April 10, 2007)
Sobering Projection (April 04, 2007)
Doctors, Pharmaceuticals, and Statisticians (March 26, 2007)
An Alternative to Single-Payer Health Care (March 23, 2007)
Single-Payer Health Care (March 22, 2007)
Against Statistics (March 15, 2007)
$125 K of premium medicine (March 07, 2007)
Hanson Gets Empirical (February 28, 2007)
Finkelstein on Health Insurance (February 28, 2007)
The Congressional Budget Office on Health Care (February 27, 2007)
McFadden on the Prescription Drug Program (February 16, 2007)
The U.S. as a Health Care Spending Outlier (February 14, 2007)
Five Big Health Care Questions (February 12, 2007)
Radical Health Care Reform (February 07, 2007)
Cowen Gets Caplanian (February 05, 2007)
The Reality of Massachusetts Health Care (January 30, 2007)
Brad DeLong on Health Care (January 26, 2007)
Health Care Conversation Winds Down (January 26, 2007)
The Bush Health Plan (January 24, 2007)
Tyrone Posts on Health Care (January 23, 2007)
Capping a Bad Tax Break (January 21, 2007)
Kevin Drum's Turkish Bazaar (January 19, 2007)
Health Care Celebrity Death Match (January 17, 2007)
Guaranteed Health Care (January 15, 2007)
Why Company Health Clinics? (January 15, 2007)
Premium Medicine, Illustrated (January 13, 2007)
Negotiating Drug Prices (January 10, 2007)
90 Percent Lack Health Insurance (January 08, 2007)
Schooling and Health (January 04, 2007)
More Hansonian Health Care (December 13, 2006)
Ezra and Elasticity (November 24, 2006)
Distribution of Health Care Spending (November 24, 2006)
Single Payer in the U.S.? (November 14, 2006)
Robert Hall, Health Care Spending, and Longevity (November 07, 2006)
Comparing Effectiveness of Health Care Procedures (November 07, 2006)
David Cutler on Health Care (November 03, 2006)
Health Care Policy for Pets (October 31, 2006)
An Illustration of Premium Medicine (October 25, 2006)
Medicare-for-all Fantasy (October 19, 2006)
Culture and Health Care Costs (October 18, 2006)
Systematically Biased Beliefs About the Causes of High Health Care Costs (October 17, 2006)
Better than Health Insurance? (October 16, 2006)
Robin Hanson on Health Care (October 16, 2006)
Mark Thoma on Health Insurance (October 16, 2006)
Health Care Innovation (October 05, 2006)
BMI: Lessons from D&D (October 04, 2006)
Presenting Health Statistics (October 03, 2006)
Do We Spend Too Little on Health Care? (September 27, 2006)
Health Care Misinformation (September 25, 2006)
Paul Krugman Hearts Medicare (September 25, 2006)
Another COA Review (September 21, 2006)
The COA Club (September 18, 2006)
I Bargained with a Dentist (September 14, 2006)
CoA Review (September 10, 2006)
Government's Role in Health Care (September 08, 2006)
Determinants of Mortality (September 06, 2006)
Tax Reform (September 04, 2006)
Health Care and Cost-Effectiveness (August 31, 2006)
Government-funded Health Care (August 27, 2006)
Preference-for-Ignorance Watch (August 18, 2006)
Preferring Ignorance (August 17, 2006)
Medicare and Health Costs (August 07, 2006)
CoA Live (August 06, 2006)
Health, Education, and Causality (July 19, 2006)
Healthy Transcript (July 18, 2006)
Physician, consult an economist. (July 18, 2006)
The Kotlikoff Budget Plan (July 15, 2006)
Medical Technology (June 27, 2006)
Expect to Live Longer than Your Life Expectancy (June 23, 2006)
If Medicare were a Country... (June 21, 2006)
Jason Furman x 2 (June 19, 2006)
Interviewed on Health Care (June 12, 2006)
My Case for Single-Payer Health Care (June 02, 2006)
My Rejoinder to Michael Tanner (June 02, 2006)
A Fundamental Health Care Issue (June 01, 2006)
CoA Watch (May 31, 2006)
Strong Mind, Strong Body: IQ and Health (May 30, 2006)
Another Reason I Will Never Retire (May 28, 2006)
Reminder--Tuesday on Capitol Hill (May 21, 2006)
A Sudden Outbreak of Greed (May 20, 2006)
CoA Alert (May 17, 2006)
I'll Be Debating Health Care Policy (May 15, 2006)
A Hansonist MD (May 12, 2006)
My Book Commercial (May 10, 2006)
Kling Interview (May 08, 2006)
Cross-posting (May 03, 2006)
Health Outcomes vs. Health Care (May 03, 2006)
Health Insurance Regulatory Crisis (May 02, 2006)
Universal Health Coverage (April 27, 2006)
Romney and Kling on Massachusetts Health Care (April 12, 2006)
Mass Health Care, Left and Right (April 10, 2006)
AIDS in Africa: Too Bad to Be True (April 07, 2006)
Mass Delusion on Health Care (April 07, 2006)
Single-Payer vs. Socialism (April 06, 2006)
Medicare is Part of the Problem (April 05, 2006)
Massachusetts Health "Plan" (April 04, 2006)
Should I Take to Drink? (April 01, 2006)
Health Care Live and in Concert (March 27, 2006)
The Jane Galt Health Plan (March 27, 2006)
Health Care Spending (March 23, 2006)
Libertarian Health Care Reform (March 20, 2006)
Slate Produces Two Good Columns (March 20, 2006)
More on Krugman and Wells (March 14, 2006)
Great Minds on Health Care? (March 12, 2006)
Socialized Medicine (March 10, 2006)
Health Care Op-Eds (March 01, 2006)
Health Care Policy (February 13, 2006)
Health Savings Accounts (February 13, 2006)
Decline in Cancer Deaths (February 09, 2006)
Samwick, Thoma, and Pearlstein on Health Care Policy (February 08, 2006)
Posner on Health Care (February 06, 2006)
The Veterans Administration Model (February 03, 2006)
No Perfect Health Care System (January 26, 2006)
A Diabetes Legend (January 25, 2006)
Giffen's Paradox of Health Care (January 25, 2006)
Maryland, Wal-Mart, and Health Care (January 13, 2006)
Milton Friedman Sparring (January 04, 2006)
Would a Cancer Vaccine Pay? (January 03, 2006)
Why is Nationalized Health Care Popular? (January 01, 2006)
Health Care Rationing (December 26, 2005)
The Real Cause of Market Failure in Health Insurance (December 15, 2005)
A Glacial Rate Isn't Bad (November 29, 2005)
Objective Facts About Subjective Health (November 28, 2005)
Wrong State for Market-Based Health Insurance (November 26, 2005)
Are health economists naughty or NICE? (November 22, 2005)
Future of Health Insurance (November 18, 2005)
James Hamilton on the Great Race (November 16, 2005)
Is Private Health Insurance Impossible? (November 14, 2005)
Mandatory Health Insurance? (November 13, 2005)
Health Care is Zero-Sum? (November 01, 2005)
The Incidence of Health Insurance (October 27, 2005)