What the US Could Learn from Thailand About Health Care Coverage
The fact that a low-income country like Thailand has universal health care coverage should put the US to shame….except our elites are incapable of that.
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Toxic Philanthropy? The Spirit of Giving While Taking
Why to be leery of philanthropy, particularly when practiced by squillionaires.
Read more...Without Obamacare Penalty, Think It’ll Be Nice To Drop Your Health Insurance? Better Think Twice
The ACA hasn’t made heath insurance more affordable for quite a few people.
Read more...Overshadowed By Opioids, Meth Is Back And Hospitalizations Surge
An update on the meth epidemic.
Read more...Hedda Martin’s GoFundMe, Spectrum Health, and Putting a Band-Aid on the Cancer of American’s Health Care System
Market dysfunction and class warfare in crowdsourced health care funding
Read more...High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Former Health Insurance Executive Debunks Trump Attacks on Single Payer
Even with health care polling as the top issue with voters, Trump is one of the loudest, but far from the only, politician out to demonize single payer.
Read more...Mortality Risk, Valuing Lives, and the Impact on Health Care
The way economists think about the value of lives influences health care policy, and some of their ideas may be producing bad outcomes.
Read more...Market Failure in Kidney Exchange
Within the US, the majority of kidney exchanges continue to be performed within hospitals, suggesting a fragmented market that comes at a large efficiency cost. National platforms may need to be redesigned to encourage full participation, with reimbursement reform.
Read more...Trump Adds A Global Pricing Plan To Wide Attack On Drug Prices, But Doubts Persist
Is Trump serious about lowering drug prices in the US? And even if he is, how far might his plans get?
Read more...Medicare Advantage Plans Shift Their Financial Risk To Doctors; Do Patients Win or Lose?
Are fixed fee pricing schemes for Medicare Advantage better for patients?
Read more...Is India on Its Way Out of Poverty?
Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, discusses a recent UNDP report showing that poverty in India has halved in the last 10 years, and the newly unveiled healthcare plan for the bottom 40% of the population, nicknamed “Modicare.”
Read more...How Inequality Harms Mental Health
Economic justice goes a long way to improving mental health up and down the socioeconomic ladder.
Read more...High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage
Yves here. The decline in use of high-deductible health insurance policies is important not just for employees who get insurance at work, but for the public generally. The retreat by employers will make it harder to treat high-deductible plans as a preferred option for expanded government-provided care. Note that employers health care costs, as you […]
Read more...Disaster Profiteers vs. the People of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico shows how distress and grifting too often go hand in hand.
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