Monthly Archives
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May 2008
- 13: Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids (0)
- 13: Medical CPI (0)
- 12: HRAs vs. HSAs (1)
- 12: Medicare Part D lowers Pharmaceutical prices? (0)
- 08: DC Conference (0)
- 07: Cavalcade of Risk #51 (0)
- 07: CDHPs and Small Business (1)
- 06: Health Insurance keeps us from getting sick? (0)
- 06: Why California Health Reform failed (0)
- 06: Rate your doctor (0)
- 05: Wal-mart: $10 for 90-day supply of generic drugs (1)
- 05: Cutting Medicare reimbursement increases the quantity of medical care (1)
- 04: Sunday Quotation (0)
- 04: Violence as a Public Health Issue (1)
- 03: Ghostwriting by Pharmaceutical Companies (2)
- 02: Friday Quotations (0)
- 01: The Dental Cartel (2)
- 01: Health Wonk Review: 1 May 2008 edition (0)
- 01: Ending obesity will save $487 billion...really? (1)
- 30: Absenteeism and Presenteeism (0)
- 29: Falling Immunization Rates (1)
- 29: Science 2.0 (0)
- 28: Did California's Medicaid HMO contracts save the state money? (2)
- 25: Health Care Around the World: Canada (1)
- 24: Health Care Around the World: Germany (1)
- 23: Health Care Around the World: Switzerland (0)
- 23: Cavalcade of Risk #50 (0)
- 23: Health Care Around the World: Great Britain (2)
- 22: Health Care Around the World: Greece (3)
- 21: Health Care Around the World: Portugal (2)
- 20: P4P: Be careful what you measure (0)
- 18: Health Care Around the World: Norway (1)
- 17: Health Wonk Review: 16 April 2008 Edition (0)
- 17: Health Care Around the World: Japan (3)
- 16: Health Care Around the World: Spain (2)
- 15: Health Care Around the World: Italy (1)
- 14: Increased Copays for high priced drugs (1)
- 14: Health Care Around the World: France (4)
- 14: Health Care Around the World: An Introduction (1)
- 13: Sick Around the World: PBS (0)
- 11: 94% of College Professors are above average (1)
- 11: Serious Economics (0)
- 10: Using the Hawthorne Effect to explain Patient Satisfaction and Quality: (1)
- 09: Cavalcade of Risk #49 (0)
- 09: Do hosiptal CEOs make too much money? (0)
- 08: Physicians on National Health Insurance (0)
- 08: Blogging may be hazardous to your health (0)
- 07: De gustibus non est disputandum (1)
- 07: Health Economics advocates paternalism (0)
- 04: Medicare Advantage funding to be cut (1)
- 04: Out of Poverty (0)
- 04: Healthcare Economist ranked as a top 50 health blog (0)
- 03: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 03: Incidence of Healthcare Costs of Obesity (1)
- 02: UCSD Economics Departmant Ranked #10 (0)
- 02: UCSD to Digitize Books with Google (0)
- 02: Economics of Information (0)
- 01: Finite Mixture Models (0)
- 01: Gary Becker on Medicare Part D (1)
- 01: Risk Equalization and deductibles (1)
- 31: Health Insurance: Why rent when you could own? (0)
- 31: Pinal County Arizona Health Care Delivery System - 2008 Conference (0)
- 30: Money for nothin...and chicks for free (0)
- 27: Who are Health Economists? What do they do? (0)
- 26: Immigrants reduce health care costs? (0)
- 26: Are economists brain damaged? (0)
- 26: Cavalcade of Risk #48 (0)
- 26: John DiNardo hates Freakonomics (1)
- 25: AEA Resources (0)
- 25: Medicare to surpass Social Security expenditures in 2028 (0)
- 25: Serial Corelation and the Durbin Watson Statistic (0)
- 24: The Spread of Obesity in Social Networks (1)
- 21: How to declare bankruptcy (0)
- 21: Zagat rates your doctor (0)
- 20: Shop around (0)
- 20: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 20: Paying kids to go to school (2)
- 19: Vaccine Logistics (0)
- 16: National Immunization Conference (0)
- 15: Pay first, evidence later. (0)
- 14: Pennsylvania works the system (0)
- 14: Darkness at Noon (0)
- 14: GoodReads (0)
- 13: Minimum Insurance Benefit (4)
- 12: March Madness Calvalcade of Risk (1)
- 11: Overtested and Overtreated (0)
- 11: The General Equilibirum of a U.S. single payer system (1)
- 11: Facebook finds Blood Donors (0)
- 10: Who values the Social Security Annuity? (0)
- 10: Marital Status and Body Weight Changes (1)
- 07: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 07: Six cutting edge Health 2.0 ideas (1)
- 07: Lenin as the first development economist (0)
- 06: Fidelity: A quarter of a million dollars needed to cover retirement health costs (2)
- 06: Risk Aversion, Impatience and Cognitive Ability (0)
- 05: Healthcare Economist wins blog of the week award (0)
- 05: Are seat belts a safety hazard? (0)
- 04: Waste in Healthcare (1)
- 04: Are Family Physicians Good for you? (2)
- 03: An EMR that protects your privacy? (4)
- 29: Doctors are very empathetic...until they start seeing patients (1)
- 29: Should all children get flu shots? (0)
- 28: Cross-border health insurance (0)
- 28: Google Health preview (0)
- 28: Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Mortality Gap (5)
- 27: Cavalcade of Risk #46 (0)
- 27: Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance (0)
- 26: Swiss Healthcare System: Part II (0)
- 25: Markets and Medicare (2)
- 25: Economist health care articles (0)
- 22: Flu shot overhaul next year (0)
- 21: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 21: Google Health (1)
- 21: And you think delays at airports are bad... (0)
- 20: Shingles Vaccine (0)
- 20: Calculating Marginal Effects with Discrete Variables (1)
- 19: Ezra Klein vs. Andrew Sullivan (2)
- 19: Consumer Channeling and Preferred Providers (0)
- 18: Product Design and Consumer Choices in the Individual Insurance Market (2)
- 18: Can HilaryCare end regional variation in healthcare spending? (0)
- 15: Should people be allowed to sell kidneys for money? (3)
- 15: Information on pharmaceutical prices (4)
- 14: Willingess to pay (WTP) perspectives (1)
- 13: Increase the income tax on men only? (0)
- 13: Cavalcade of Risk #45 (1)
- 13: Welfarists vs. Extra-welfarists (0)
- 13: What questions should you ask your doctor? (0)
- 12: Will giving weight-loss prizes to the obese save the NHS money? (3)
- 11: Pittsburgh has more MRI Machines than Canada (2)
- 08: Do hybrids increase traffic? (0)
- 07: Merck owes $671 million from incorrect Medicaid charges (0)
- 07: How to reform Med School (0)
- 06: Self-protection and insurance (0)
- 05: No on Mandates (0)
- 05: Big Brother: FBI to build computer database of people's physical characteristics (0)
- 04: Massachusetts' subsidized insurance plan to cost $1.35 billion by 2011 (1)
- 04: Should the NHS pay for medical procedures for smokers and the elderly (1)
- 01: Healthcare Super Bowl: Public vs. Private Providers (0)
- 31: PacifiCare fined $3.5 million for claims-processing violations (0)
- 30: Insurance Markets and Advantageous Selection (1)
- 30: Cavalcade of Risk #44 (0)
- 29: Kaiser Online (1)
- 29: Flat Tax - Part II (1)
- 29: 2008 State of the Union (2)
- 28: Do political parties matter? (1)
- 25: Patents in India (1)
- 24: Too few US adults get their shots (1)
- 24: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 23: PoliGraph at Healthcare 08 (0)
- 23: Healthcare cost and quality in 9 European countries (2)
- 22: Hospital survival rate: 34%. Casino survival rate: 50%. (4)
- 22: Best Economics blogs of 2008 (1)
- 21: Becker and Posner on Presidential Candidate's Healthcare Reform proposals (0)
- 19: Healthcare Economist Two Year Anniversary (1)
- 18: Russia's Flat Tax (4)
- 17: Seven Country Health Care Survey (1)
- 16: Cavalcade of Risk is posted (0)
- 16: The financial burden of overweight elderly Americans (0)
- 15: Medical Errors (1)
- 15: Public health officials save lives. Public health officials kill. (0)
- 14: Singapore's Health Care system (1)
- 11: Economics of "Pay or Play" Mandates (1)
- 10: Health Wonk Review posted (0)
- 10: Gallup Polls vs. Actual Voting Results (0)
- 09: Guide to the Republican Candidates (7)
- 08: Guide to the Democratic Candidates (4)
- 07: A Study in Quality: Ambulatory Surgery Centers vs. Hospital Outpatient Departments (0)
- 04: PE Requirements and Overweight Youth (0)
- 02: CoR (0)
- 31: Subsidies keep small-airport flights in the air (0)
- 28: Employers can drop insurance coverage for those 65+ (2)
- 27: Small Business Blogging (1)
- 21: California's Attempt at Universal Health Care (5)
- 20: GoozNews on the Pharmaceutical Industry (0)
- 20: Tyranny of the gift (0)
- 19: Cavalcade of Risk is posted (0)
- 19: EMR: Promise and Problems (2)
- 18: Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption in China (1)
- 17: The Government still dominates the U.S.'s supposed 'private' health care system (0)
- 17: How much uncompensated care do doctors provide? Less than zero. (2)
- 14: The Economics of Alcohol Control (1)
- 14: Quotation of the day (0)
- 13: Importation and Innovation (3)
- 12: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 12: Subprime Lending (1)
- 11: Doctors figure out what house movers, wedding planners, and tax accountats figured out ages ago (1)
- 10: Medicare Part D and Switching Costs (2)
- 10: N.Y. Times 10 Best Books of 2007 (0)
- 07: Quality Improvement Tools & Techniques (1)
- 06: Breakfast of Champions: Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity II (1)
- 05: CoR: Pre-holiday edition (0)
- 05: Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity (1)
- 04: Don't always believe your local economist (0)
- 04: Nearly half of all U.S. doctors fail to report incompetent or unethical colleagues (1)
- 03: Stark regrets creation of "Stark laws" (1)
- 03: How medical care was financed 2000 years ago (0)
- 03: Physician Reimbursement and Technology adoption (1)
- 30: Some Friday Humor (3)
- 29: Privacy (2)
- 28: Health Wonk Review is up (0)
- 28: Marriage and Obesity (1)
- 27: Swiss Healthcare System (5)
- 27: Value-based pricing (0)
- 26: Too fat to work (1)
- 25: Sunlight is the best disinfectant (0)
- 21: Thanksgiving Cavalcade of Risk (1)
- 20: Why are we Obese? (1)
- 19: The Nanny State: Clean your room! (0)
- 19: Rating the "demi-gods in white" (3)
- 16: Commentary on P4P (1)
- 15: The truth about the RAND HIE (4)
- 14: China Health News (0)
- 14: Wednesday Reading (0)
- 13: Is the FDA Safe and Effective? (0)
- 12: Resources for Health Economists (0)
- 11: EconLog on P4P (2)
- 09: Does the American health care system give good value for the dollar? (1)
- 09: The Places in Between (0)
- 09: WTO adopts blue toilet seat for its logo (0)
- 08: Minute Clinics come to San Diego (1)
- 08: The Perils of Petrocracy (0)
- 07: CoR #38 (0)
- 07: Randomization Bias and the Show-up fee (0)
- 07: More Randomization Problems (0)
- 06: Local Instrumental Variables (0)
- 06: Doctor, Doctor, Lend me Your Ear (1)
- 05: Picking a Medicare Plan (2)
- 02: Private Health Insurance and Administrative Expenses (2)
- 01: Health Wonk Review is up (1)
- 01: Survey Measures of Risk Aversion and Prudence (0)
- 31: When can IT improve medical quality and cut costs (0)
- 30: Medical Tourism: Good or Bad? (2)
- 29: Therapeutic non-adherence: a rational behavior revealing patient preferences? (0)
- 26: Friday afternoon Comic (0)
- 26: 'For the first time I found myself truly caught between my own needs and those of my patient.' (0)
- 25: Social Networks and Access to Care (0)
- 24: Cavalcade of Risk #37 (0)
- 24: Lifetime Benefits of Medical Technology (0)
- 23: King of all media (1)
- 23: San Diego Wildfires from a San Diego Resident (3)
- 22: Cure for Cancer: Use an expensive placebo...not a cheap one! (1)
- 22: Catastrophic Payments for Health Care in Asia (1)
- 21: Quotations of the day (0)
- 19: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (0)
- 18: Health Wonk Review (16)
- 17: Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending (4)
- 16: Midwifery-Promoting Public Policies and Health Outcomes (3)
- 15: 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics (0)
- 13: Procrastination (1)
- 12: Overtreated (2)
- 11: GM-UAW deal (0)
- 11: Can poverty improve health? (0)
- 10: Implicit Tax: Medicare as a Secondary Payer (0)
- 09: Quotation of the day (0)
- 09: The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up (0)
- 09: Analyzing Background Risk with Morgan Dollars (0)
- 08: 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded (0)
- 08: Climbing Mt. Everest or The road to completing a PhD (3)
- 08: More Physician Assistants prefer working in specialty fields over the primary care setting (1)
- 05: Microsoft's Online Health Records (2)
- 05: Physician house calls (3)
- 04: HWR is up (0)
- 04: High quality schools don't improve learning?!?! (0)
- 04: When do Consumers Search? (0)
- 03: How patents skew medical research (0)
- 02: Health Care System Grudge Match: Canada vs. U.S. (12)
- 02: The latest Carnival of Personal Finance is up (0)
- 01: Contracting for Government Services (1)
- 28: Legislating Medical Care (3)
- 28: A Random Walk (4)
- 27: Public Health vs. Medicine (3)
- 26: CoR #35 (0)
- 26: Flu Shots May Have Little Mortality Benefit in Older Adults (0)
- 25: Breast Cancer information (0)
- 25: Neo-Laffer Curve (1)
- 24: Banzhof power index (0)
- 24: Time Allocation in Primary Care Visits (1)
- 21: More on convenience clinics (1)
- 20: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 20: Pharma News (0)
- 19: Utility Function (0)
- 19: What makes us healthy? (2)
- 19: Washington Monthly Articles (1)
- 18: Presidential Hopefuls' stance on Health Care (1)
- 18: UK Doctors refuse to fix builder's broken ankle unless he quits smoking (0)
- 18: Wal-mart health plan (0)
- 18: Drug Rx on chartreuse-colored paper only...not lavender! (3)
- 14: Medicaid Market and Pediatric Patient Safety (0)
- 14: CureHunter (1)
- 14: Big Pharma May Have Bet Wrong in Flu-Shot Race (1)
- 13: Rx: Cut U.S. medical spending in half!?!?! (1)
- 13: Search Frictions in Employer-Based Insurance Markets (1)
- 12: Cavalcade of Risk #34 is up (0)
- 12: Accounting for quality in the measurement of hospital performance in Costa Rica (0)
- 11: Amgen CEO on Marketplace (1)
- 10: Estimates of Number Uninsured Too High (0)
- 10: Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? (0)
- 10: Why not shop around? (1)
- 09: Goozner on SCHIP (0)
- 07: WSJ on the Dutch Health Care System (8)
- 06: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 06: Where does your PCP get their health care information (2)
- 05: No hip replacement for you, fatso! (4)
- 04: Rock Star mortality (0)
- 04: Optimal Contracts for Health Services in the Presence of Waiting Times and Asymmetric Information (0)
- 31: How a Ph.D. Can Save Your Life (2)
- 30: What are the Major Clinical Pathways to Disability (1)
- 29: CoR (0)
- 29: Economy and Number Uninsured grows (0)
- 29: Theory of the Second Best (0)
- 28: Cats and dogs (0)
- 27: California wants change. California does not want change. (1)
- 27: Megan McArdle: questioning the moral justice of a single payer system (2)
- 24: Russia's mental hospitals (0)
- 23: The latest HWR is up! (0)
- 23: Are High-Quality Cardiac Surgeons Less Likely to Operate on High-Risk Patients? (0)
- 22: Corrupted Blood: A model for influenza pandemics (1)
- 22: Cannon on P4P (0)
- 21: Increased pain medicine sales (not due to Brett Favre purchases) (0)
- 20: Why doesn't my doctor prescribe generics? (0)
- 20: Best Economics Blogs (0)
- 20: Maps on acid (0)
- 20: What do Nonprofit hospitals maximize (0)
- 17: CoR #32 (0)
- 17: Japan: A culture of savers? (0)
- 17: Healthcare Blogger Survey (0)
- 16: Peru Earthquake (0)
- 16: How should clinics schedule appointments? (1)
- 16: P4P data sources (0)
- 15: More Evidence Google is trying to rule the world (0)
- 14: Metrics for Vaccination Rates (1)
- 13: Advice for Economics Grad Students (0)
- 10: Drugs, Drugs and more Drugs (2)
- 09: Do Americans kids know anything about economics? (1)
- 09: HWR is up (0)
- 09: Want a 912% return in one year? (0)
- 08: Physicians' contracts, treatment decisions and diagnosis accuracy (0)
- 07: 2 for 1 special on lettuce, 30% off pasta ...and free ciprofoxacin? (0)
- 07: Violence: A Vicious Cycle (0)
- 06: The Fox in the Henhouse (1)
- 05: The difference between intellectuals and politicians (0)
- 03: Is your doctor licensed? (0)
- 03: Health Club Membership: A luxury good (0)
- 03: Developments in Non-Expected Utility Theory (0)
- 31: Cavalcade of Risk #31 (5)
- 31: Prospect Theory (3)
- 30: CoR Sumbissions Due (0)
- 30: Four Axioms needed for Expected Utility Theory (0)
- 27: ESD: Han Bleichrodt (1)
- 26: ESD: Willard Manning (0)
- 26: The latest Health Wonk Review is up (0)
- 25: Primary Care vs. Specialists (2)
- 25: More growth in Convenience Clinics (1)
- 25: ESD: Don Kenkel (0)
- 24: ESD: Volker Meier (0)
- 23: China Makes, The World Takes (0)
- 20: Econ Department Rankings (0)
- 19: The Use of Knowldege in Society (1)
- 16: ESD: Mathias Kifmann (1)
- 13: ESD: Louis Eeckhoudt (0)
- 13: Health Wonk Review is up (0)
- 03: Healthcare Economist going European (1)
- 03: A New Empiricism (0)
- 02: Stand-up Economist (0)
- 02: Sicko (2)
- 29: Quotation for your weekend (0)
- 29: Integrated Healthcare Association and P4P (0)
- 28: Focused Factories (1)
- 27: Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare (0)
- 26: AMA takes on Retail Clinics (1)
- 25: Carnival of Personal Finance (0)
- 25: List Size and Primary Care Production (0)
- 25: Glossary of Terms used in Health Economics (1)
- 22: Today's Recipe: How to cook the books (1)
- 21: Pay Enough or Don't Pay At All (0)
- 20: CoR #28 (0)
- 20: The other P4P (0)
- 19: The best blogs on health and medicine (0)
- 18: Health Care the nation's #1 priority (0)
- 18: Gates gives $105m to study public-health programs (0)
- 15: Tax Paris Hilton, not Britney Spears (0)
- 15: Ultimate Buy and Hold (2)
- 14: State Health Care Rankings (2)
- 14: Health Wonk Review is up (0)
- 13: Quotation of the Day (0)
- 13: Vaccination Externalities (1)
- 12: Empirical Findings on P4P (0)
- 11: Economics and QALYs (0)
- 11: NYT Magazine: The Money Issue (0)
- 08: The News Media and Immigration Attitudes
- 08: End Stage Renal Disease: An International Comparison (2)
- 07: Gordon Hanson in The Economist (0)
- 06: Cavalcade of Risk: 1st Anniversary Edition (0)
- 06: Adjusting Nursing Home Quality Measures (0)
- 05: Medical costs contribute to half of bankruptcies (2)
- 05: Randomized Controlled Trials and Adverse Effects (0)
- 04: Late to the Feast: Primary Care (1)
- 04: NHS refuses to provide surgery for smokers (1)
- 01: Adam Smith meets Jonas Salk (0)
- 01: Leopards vs. Tigers (0)
- 31: Globalization and Sushi (0)
- 31: HWR (0)
- 30: Green House Project (0)
- 29: P4P and inequality (1)
- 28: My Memorial Day (0)
- 27: Road to Guantánamo (0)
- 25: Infantes Bilingües (0)
- 25: Relaxing Medicaid income restrictions and nursing home use (0)
- 24: Bootstrapping (0)
- 23: The Unintended Consequences of Measuring Quality on the Quality of Medical Care (0)
- 23: Cavalcade of Risk #26 is up (0)
- 23: Laurence Baker (1)
- 22: Will Medical IT increase cost? Is slow adoption better? (6)
- 21: Generic Medical Devices (0)
- 21: Schwarzenegger's Health Reform Proposal (0)
- 18: VA Played Fast and Loose With the Facts (1)
- 18: Cal Health Reform (0)
- 18: Nursing Home Residents, Hospice Care and Hospitalizations (1)
- 17: Health Insurance and Medical Care Utilization (1)
- 16: RAND HIE...The Sequel (1)
- 15: Quality by any other name (0)
- 14: Where are people getting immunizations? (2)
- 11: 6 Economists Everyone Should Know (1)
- 10: Hospital Innovators 2007 (1)
- 10: Does your first job out of graduate school matter? (0)
- 09: Cavalcade of Risk - May 9th, 2007 Edition (0)
- 09: Unintended Consequences of Publicly Reporting Quality Information (0)
- 08: On a lighter note... (0)
- 08: Anti-Depressants (0)
- 07: Problems with Quality Measures (1)
- 04: Senate to back Drug Reimportation (0)
- 04: Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly (1)
- 03: Health Wonk Review: Derby Edition (0)
- 03: Super-Simple Explanation: Why the U.S. has high health care costs and poor health outcomes (0)
- 02: Ranking Economics Journals (0)
- 01: The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children (0)
- 30: Against Intellectual Property: Pharmaceuticals (2)
- 27: Health Plan Report Cards (0)
- 26: Wal-Clinics (1)
- 25: Getting Doctors to Compete (0)
- 25: Cavalcade of Risk #24 (0)
- 25: Government Expenditures and Health Outcomes (0)
- 24: Public Health Interventions during the 1918 influenza pandemic (0)
- 23: Explaining U.S. Wage Differentials: 1890 to 2005 (0)
- 22: European Science Days (0)
- 19: Health Wonk Review (9)
- 18: Health care systems in East Asia (2)
- 18: Me too drugs (0)
- 17: The growth of convenience clinics (4)
- 17: Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (0)
- 16: Simultaneous Equation Bias (0)
- 15: How to fix L.A. traffic (0)
- 13: A drastic decision (0)
- 13: Market for elective surgery (0)
- 12: China's short on water (0)
- 12: Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries (1)
- 11: Calvalcade of Risk #23 (0)
- 11: Wait times and Mortality (0)
- 10: Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care (2)
- 09: The Economics of Religion (0)
- 06: Operating on Commission (2)
- 05: Health Wonk Review posted (0)
- 05: Why are doctors complaining about the rising cost of vaccines? (0)
- 05: Who is sick? (0)
- 04: Mortality, Mass-Layoffs and Career Outcomes (1)
- 04: Business and the Left Unite? (0)
- 03: Income Inequality and Health (0)
- 02: Mises Institute: 'Medicare raises health care costs' (0)
- 30: 'Rethinking Free Trade' by Lindsay Oldenski (0)
- 29: Cavalcade of Risk #22 is up (0)
- 27: Spring Training (0)
- 27: Single payer commentaries (2)
- 26: Physicians vs. Statisticians (0)
- 26: Nobel Peace Prize winner: 'Patients must pay' (1)
- 26: Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes fight Malaria? (0)
- 23: Reauthorizing SCHIP (1)
- 22: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 22: Advice on Applying to Graduate School (0)
- 21: Jerome Groopman on The Colbert Report (0)
- 21: Family MDs and Technology (0)
- 20: 2010 Census Short-form (0)
- 20: Shriner Hospital Corruption (0)
- 19: Exploring the Role of Internet Advertising in American Politics
- 16: How Doctors Think (3)
- 15: March Madness (0)
- 15: Dynamic Analysis of Market Shares and Health Insurance Choice (0)
- 14: What determines differences in public goods provision? (0)
- 14: Cavalcade of Risk #21 (0)
- 13: Quotation of the day (0)
- 13: Your Congress Your Health (0)
- 13: On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code (0)
- 12: A week of Corruption (0)
- 12: Bayesian Inference III (0)
- 09: Elle Jae Jewelry (0)
- 09: Bayesian Inference II (0)
- 09: Health Wonk Review (0)
- 08: Voucher Debate (0)
- 08: Bayesian Inference I (2)
- 07: Tax-preferred health savings accounts (1)
- 07: How to publish (and not perish) (0)
- 06: Should the government limit health insurance CEOs' pay? (1)
- 06: Growth in Social Security Disability Rolls (0)
- 05: Crowd Out (0)
- 05: New Blog: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review (0)
- 03: Earnings of health economists (0)
- 02: CAFTA (0)
- 01: Information and the Reduction in Child Injury Mortality (0)
- 28: The Century Forum (1)
- 28: Cavalcade of Risk is up (0)
- 28: Bodies (0)
- 27: EEA Conference Review (0)
- 21: EEA Conference (1)
- 20: Urban Sprawl and Health (3)
- 19: Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? (0)
- 16: Increase copays and increase medical spending? (1)
- 15: Why does Scandinavia have high taxes but also high labor force participation? (0)
- 14: Farmers Become Health-Care Monitors (0)
- 14: You've got mail (0)
- 13: Learned Hand (0)
- 12: Does immigration decrease emergency department usage? (0)
- 09: Notional Defined Contribution Model (1)
- 09: Basic Econometric Concepts: Time Series (1)
- 08: Health Wonk Review #25 (0)
- 08: Global-HELP (0)
- 08: Becker-Posner debate Bush healthcare plan (0)
- 07: Regulating Misinformation (0)
- 06: Ambulatory Process of Care and Quality of Life Outcomes (0)
- 05: How much does your country help the third world? (1)
- 02: U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic (1)
- 02: Eat food. (0)
- 01: The Excess Burden of Government Indecision (0)
- 01: Cavalcade of Risk #18 (0)
- 31: Preparing and Presenting Effective Research Posters (0)
- 30: Mandatory Health Insurance Now (0)
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