Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program, by Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber (AER) We evaluate the choices of elders across their insurance options under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plan, using a unique dataset of prescription dru
CDC: MMWR notes top 10 global public health achievements of the first 10 years of the 21st Century CBPP: Report on federal Medicaid ‘blended’ rate and cost shifting to states Kaiser: Q & A with Robert Berenson on addressing Medicare costs Kaiser: Video: Berenson talks controlling Medicare costs Mill
Declining coverage from employer sponsored insurance
The RWJF has released a report documenting the change in emloyer sponsored health insurance coverage across the US: A report from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota shows the percentage of nonelderly Americans who get their health insurance through
The net cost of Medicare Advantage
“An Economic History of Medicare Part C,” a new paper in The Milbank Quarterly by McGuire, Newhouse, and Sinaiko, is a tasty smorgasbord of background on Medicare Advantage, aka Medicare Part C.* I mean no disrespect for the authors or their work, but let’s just skip all the very nice detail in the
AARP/RWJF/NRHA: Maximizing the impact of nursing in rural areas NIH: new work on cellular pathway that is the basis of aging more info FDA: approves Potiga (ezogabine) to treat seizures in adults Kaiser: Notes on reform blog/series focuses on impact of #HCR on private insuranceThe post On The Record
CBO on effect of defunding ACA implementation
CBO has sent a letter to Rep. Waxman addressing his question about …budgetary effects of legislation that would permanently prevent the use of appropriated funds to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and provisions related to health care in the Health Care and E
My other Twitter account (@afrakt)
任何关心此事的人可能已经关注博客的Twitter feed @incidentalecon。我Just just打开了它，所以任何关心的人都可以跟随。我敢肯定，它至少价值十倍。 * […]我的其他Twitter帐户（@Afrakt）首次出现在附带经济学家中。
我们正在使用TIE的常规功能，这是每日帖子“记录”的帖子，它是@incidentalecon的综述，使用#tienews标签#tienews，它将提供有关相关健康政策相关信息的链接。目的是及时地链接到NIH等政府资源的信息，[…]记录中首次出现在偶然的经济学家上。
Medicare Part A as an individual mandate
Opponents of the individual mandate agree with Judge Hudson that the Commerce Clause does not extend to regulating inactivity: “But these regulatory powers are triggered by some type of self-initiated action. Neither the Supreme Court nor any federal circuit court of appeals has extended Commerce Cl
Robert Weisman reports in today’s Boston Globe: While the White House seems destined to spend the next two years fending off attacks on President Obama’s health care law, the administration of Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts will push forward with the next stage of health care overhaul: tryi
Kevin Drum has a piece up discussing Megan McArdle citing Derick Rowe: Via Megan McArdle, Derek Lowe blogs today about an entire field of pharmaceutical research revolving around PPAR ligands that pretty much went nowhere and cost drug companies a bundle: Allow me to rant for a bit, because I saw ye
You’d think we were all popping pills like crazy
But you’d be wrong: More than a quarter of Americans who take prescription drugs have skipped doses, split pills or cut other corners to save money in the last year, according to a new study by Consumer Reports… This telephone survey, of 1,154 adults who currently take at least one prescription drug
Pro-Competition vs. Pro-Business
Jay Greene of The Detroit Free Press (h/t Kaiser Health News) reports, The regulation — which establishes a competitive bidding process for companies that provide medical home equipment to Medicare patients and also limits the number of companies under contract — could drive out of business up to 90
In a comment to my review of Angrist’s and Pischke’s The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics squidy wrote “You may also want to check out the response to this paper by Liran Einav and Jon Levin. That paper is titled Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report. In fact a paper by t
The Republican Commissioned CMS Report
My inbox is filled with questions (and screams) about the CMS report discussed at length in the news over the weekend: The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis by the chief actuary at the Centers for M
Cost-containment shoudn't be wishful thinking
埃兹拉（Ezra）采访了著名的亲卫生经济学家乔恩·格鲁伯（Jon Gruber）。首先，我要说我对他们两个都有很大的尊重。严重地。 That said, I think Ezra pulls out a weak argument at the end: One of my frustrations with the cost-control discussion is that people set this up like a choice […]The post Cost-containment shoudn't be wishful thinking first appeared on
The ER does not count as health care
There are many odd things people say all the time about health care in the United States, but this one always makes my hair stand on end (emphasis not mine): While speaking out against Democratic proposals to increase access to quality, affordable health care, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed, “all Am
