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

Publishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About

Sherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker

The Paperback Arrives

Peter Orszag on Health Care Costs

WHO's Health Rankings

Preventive Health Care is not a Free Lunch

A Health Care Proposal

Health Insurance Innovation?

Uncle Jonathan Wants You

A Health Care Experiment

The Massachusetts Health Care Tar-baby

My Ongoing Frustration

The Government Health Care System

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance

Medical Innumeracy in Super Crunchers

Posner vs. Becker

Liberal Fascism Watch

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

Thoughts on Medicare

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

Publishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About

Sherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker

The Paperback Arrives

Peter Orszag on Health Care Costs

WHO's Health Rankings

Preventive Health Care is not a Free Lunch

A Health Care Proposal

Health Insurance Innovation?

Uncle Jonathan Wants You

A Health Care Experiment

The Massachusetts Health Care Tar-baby

My Ongoing Frustration

The Government Health Care System

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance

Medical Innumeracy in Super Crunchers

Posner vs. Becker

Liberal Fascism Watch

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

Thoughts on Medicare

New Working Papers of Interest

Premium Medicine: Proton Therapy

What Nick is Reading

Against Moneyball Medicine

Are You Tired

Orszag gives my talk

Pragmatic Health Care Reform

The Iceberg Groweth

Blogging When I Should Have Been Betting

Health Care Safety

Comparative Health Care

Jonathan Cohn Needs Masonomics

Doctor-Patient Conversations

Mankiw Scores One

Kling and Mankiw on Health Care

Another One of My Health Care Debate Peeves

More Passengers on the Titanic

Maggie Mahar vs. Arnold Kling

Random Things to Read

A Quibble with Tyler

Single-Payer: Klein vs. Kling

Doctors' Statistical Ignorance

Senator McCain on Health Care

Overtreated

Mandatory Health Insurance?

More on Journalists

Ending Aging

Proposals for Health Care Stasis

Fogel Compares Health Systems

Doctors as Oracles

How Contrarian is the Hansonian View of Medicine?

Robin Hanson Unbound

Another Reason To Doubt Infant Mortality Data

I Will Live to Be 87

He's Not an Economist

Reality and Health Care Spending

Are They All Orphans?

Universal Coverage? I say Ma-a-a-a-ah

Ken Rogoff and a Health Care Fallacy

Thoma Takes on Robert J. Samuelson

Physician Pay

Primary Care Doctors vs. Specialists

Medical Paradigm

Andy Stern on Health Care

Doctors and Waiting Times

Opposition to Single-Payer Health Care

On the Health Care Front

Austan Goolsbee on Health Care

Health Care Op-Ed

Why No Electronic Medical Records?

In which Max discovers a tic

Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko"

The Height of Brave Interpretation

The Crux of Health Care Reform

Brad DeLong's Health Care Prescription

I Get Noticed

Health Care Cynicism

A Controversial Health Insurance Metaphor

Should I Get LASIK?

Health Care and the Consumer

Hanson on Hanson

Do the Overweight Pull Their Weight?

Tyler Cowen Channels Uwe Reinhardt

A Headline Tells the Single-Payer Story

Downplaying the Uninsured

Breast Cancer: a Hansonian Tale

Becker on Health Insurance

Jason Furman's Health Care Plan

Arlo's Single Payer Plan

Medicare, the U.S., and France

Sobering Projection

Doctors, Pharmaceuticals, and Statisticians

An Alternative to Single-Payer Health Care

Single-Payer Health Care

Against Statistics

$125 K of premium medicine

Hanson Gets Empirical

Finkelstein on Health Insurance

The Congressional Budget Office on Health Care

McFadden on the Prescription Drug Program

The U.S. as a Health Care Spending Outlier

Five Big Health Care Questions

Radical Health Care Reform

Cowen Gets Caplanian

The Reality of Massachusetts Health Care

Brad DeLong on Health Care

Health Care Conversation Winds Down

The Bush Health Plan

Tyrone Posts on Health Care

Capping a Bad Tax Break

Kevin Drum's Turkish Bazaar

Health Care Celebrity Death Match

Guaranteed Health Care

Why Company Health Clinics?

Premium Medicine, Illustrated

Negotiating Drug Prices

90 Percent Lack Health Insurance

Schooling and Health

More Hansonian Health Care

Ezra and Elasticity

Distribution of Health Care Spending

Single Payer in the U.S.?

Robert Hall, Health Care Spending, and Longevity

Comparing Effectiveness of Health Care Procedures

David Cutler on Health Care

Health Care Policy for Pets

An Illustration of Premium Medicine

Medicare-for-all Fantasy

Culture and Health Care Costs

Systematically Biased Beliefs About the Causes of High Health Care Costs

Better than Health Insurance?

Robin Hanson on Health Care

Mark Thoma on Health Insurance

Health Care Innovation

BMI: Lessons from D&D

Presenting Health Statistics

Do We Spend Too Little on Health Care?

Health Care Misinformation

Paul Krugman Hearts Medicare

Another COA Review

The COA Club

I Bargained with a Dentist

CoA Review

Government's Role in Health Care

Determinants of Mortality

Tax Reform

Health Care and Cost-Effectiveness

Government-funded Health Care

Preference-for-Ignorance Watch

Preferring Ignorance

Medicare and Health Costs

CoA Live

Health, Education, and Causality

Healthy Transcript

Physician, consult an economist.

The Kotlikoff Budget Plan

Medical Technology

Expect to Live Longer than Your Life Expectancy

If Medicare were a Country...

Jason Furman x 2

Interviewed on Health Care

My Case for Single-Payer Health Care

My Rejoinder to Michael Tanner

A Fundamental Health Care Issue

CoA Watch

Strong Mind, Strong Body: IQ and Health

Another Reason I Will Never Retire

Reminder--Tuesday on Capitol Hill

A Sudden Outbreak of Greed

CoA Alert

I'll Be Debating Health Care Policy

A Hansonist MD

My Book Commercial

Kling Interview

Health Care Op-Eds

Health Care Policy

Health Savings Accounts

Decline in Cancer Deaths

Samwick, Thoma, and Pearlstein on Health Care Policy

Posner on Health Care

The Veterans Administration Model

No Perfect Health Care System

A Diabetes Legend

Giffen's Paradox of Health Care

Maryland, Wal-Mart, and Health Care

Milton Friedman Sparring

Would a Cancer Vaccine Pay?

Why is Nationalized Health Care Popular?

Health Care Rationing

The Real Cause of Market Failure in Health Insurance

A Glacial Rate Isn't Bad

Objective Facts About Subjective Health

Wrong State for Market-Based Health Insurance

Are health economists naughty or NICE?

Future of Health Insurance

James Hamilton on the Great Race

Is Private Health Insurance Impossible?

Mandatory Health Insurance?

Health Care is Zero-Sum?

The Incidence of Health Insurance

Health Care Documentary

Licensing Rents

Health Care and Life Expectancy: Numerators Versus Denominators

Tyler Cowen's Tight Constraints

Grey-area Medicine and Non-monetary Costs

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts

Did Gladwell Libel Economists?

Health Policy Prescriptions

Health Care in California: Sick from Economic Illiteracy

Which Doctors Should You Fear?

Health Care Corruption

Professors for Drugs

Critical Care Insurance

Hospital Infections: a Point for Hanson

Is Health Care Worth It, Con't

Three Last Gasps on Health Economics

Acting "As If" Hanson's Right

Who has Socialized Medicine?

Calling Dr. Econ

Healthy Debate

Measuring Health Care Effectiveness

Health Care Administrative Costs

From 0 to 50 Trillion in Two Weeks

Krugman Comes Out

Benefits of Health Care

Health Care Commentaries

Krugman's Got a Point, But I've Got a Better One

Medical Guidelines Commission?

Deadly Medicine and Youthful Rebellion

Colonoscopies Cost-Effective?

Computerized Medical Records

Influencing Longevity--"flat of the curve?"

More on Activist Medicine

crisis of abundance

Questioning Medical Privacy

Health Care and the Poor

Don't Clean That Plate

Probability and Medicine

Costs, Benefits, and Health Care

International Health Care Comparisons

Health Insurance Puzzle

Health Care and Real Wages

Health Insurance Administrative Costs

Health Care Waste, Continued

Health Care Waste

Bleg: Terminal Health Care Spending

Health Care Technocrat

David Cutler and Health Care

Provider-Driven Health Care Regulation

Who Needs Health Insurance?

Medicaid and Nursing Homes

Third-party Payments and Vioxx

Real Health Insurance

Becker and Posner vs. Medicare

Health Care Celebrity Death-Match

VA Hospitals as Quality Leaders

Health Care First-party Payments

Malpractice Reform

Lifespan Calculations

Bell Curve in Medical Care

More on Medicaid

Carnival of the Capitalists

Or is it Medicaid?

Information and Incentives

Tax Breaks vs. Subsidies

Health Insurance Regulation

Subsidize Health Care to Cut Costs?

Health Care Disintermediation

Health Care and Moral Values

Explaining Pharmaceutical Regulation

Cost of Health Care Regulation

Health Care

Drug Prices

Free-Market Health Care?

health care

Economics of Health Insurance

Health Care Policy

Blaming Health Care Producers

Nobel Laureates speak

Policy Specifics

Evaluating Health Care Systems

Data Request: Health Care Spending

Business and Health Care Costs

Health and Taxes

The Economics of Wage Labor

Physician Licensing

Domestic Policy Issues

Medicare History

Health Care

Fogel Vs. Wonks

Rational Decisions and Pharmaceutical Regulation

Medicare Proposal

Milton Friedman on health, education

Health Insurance Idea

Why is Health Care Inefficient?

"It's Their Fault"

Health Care Productivity

Consumer-driven Health Care

The Health Care Market

The High-Cost Producer

Collective vs. Individual Benefits

Regulation and Industry Structure

Taxes and Health Insurance

AARP rent-seeking

Health Care Spending, Continued

Health Care Spending

Kotlikoff on Social Security

Health Insurance Reform

Various Articles

Libertarian Redistribution

Canadian Health Care

Comment of the Week, 2003-08-20

Benefits of Health Care Spending

Health Care Reform

Health Care Economics

Comment of the Week, 2003-06-25

Quack Remedy

Drug Price Discrimination?

Health Care Madness

Economics of Obesity

Sowell on Health Care


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April 21, 2008

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



I've been a pitiful figure the last six months. My feet have been hurting so much that I practically abandoned......MORE

March 25, 2008

Publishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About



One of Robin Hanson's greatest unpublishable papers has finally been published. "Showing That You Care: The Evolution of Health Altruism"......MORE

March 24, 2008

Sherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker



In Sunday's Washington Post, Jacob Hacker wrote, getting the government more involved in health care would actually reduce costs, improve......MORE

March 24, 2008

The Paperback Arrives



Crisis of Abundance is now in paperback, for ten bucks at Amazon. The fact that Peter Orszag, no ideological fellow-traveler......MORE

March 23, 2008

Peter Orszag on Health Care Costs



He spoke at the Wilson School. The audio sounds bad on my computer, but he makes an important point. If......MORE

February 28, 2008

WHO's Health Rankings



Glen Whitman writes, suppose that a country currently provides everyone the same quality of health care. And then suppose the......MORE

February 14, 2008

Preventive Health Care is not a Free Lunch



'rdan' quotes a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although some preventive measures do save money, the vast......MORE

February 13, 2008

A Health Care Proposal



from Kevin Drum: But if it's price signals and competition you're after, why not cut out the middleman and have......MORE

February 12, 2008

Health Insurance Innovation?



Tyler Cowen waxes romantic. Let me also tell you my ideal world. Insurance companies are judged by honest third party......MORE

February 4, 2008

Uncle Jonathan Wants You



Jonathan Gruber writes, It is useful to think about the uninsured as tuna and those who already have insurance as......MORE

February 1, 2008

A Health Care Experiment



Called the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Coordinated care services are actions taken by a Registered Nurse (RN) Care Manager to......MORE

January 31, 2008

The Massachusetts Health Care Tar-baby



Shikha Dalmia writes, The state health-care bill for fiscal 2008-2009 is expected to touch $400 million -- 85% more than......MORE

January 30, 2008

My Ongoing Frustration



I'm back home, a thousand miles away from my father. But he had another setback, and he is back in......MORE

January 29, 2008

The Government Health Care System



My latest essay: Medicare is wonderful for relieving the elderly from the burden of worrying about health care expenses. By......MORE

January 28, 2008

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance



David Cutler, Amy Finkelstein and Kathleen McGarry write, Standard theories of insurance, dating from Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976), stress the......MORE

January 20, 2008

Medical Innumeracy in Super Crunchers



Ian Ayres' Super Crunchers is full of neat material. But my favorite parts highlight the innumeracy of the medical profession.......MORE

January 13, 2008

Posner vs. Becker



Richard Posner writes, the uninsured are on average less rather than more healthy than the insured Gary Becker writes most......MORE

January 13, 2008

Liberal Fascism Watch



The Boston Globe reports Mayor Thomas M. Menino embarked on a highly public campaign yesterday to block CVS Corp. and......MORE

January 13, 2008

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



In The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford highly praised the health care policies of Singapore. But it wasn't until I read......MORE

January 9, 2008

Thoughts on Medicare



Megan McArdle writes, My (partial) list of the interesting questions: 1. Is Medicare well structured to provide good health care......MORE


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