Medicare Advantage: What Explains Its Robust Health?
The Medicare Advantage (MA) program continues to grow and thrive, despite plan payment cuts imposed through the Affordable Care Act.
Research
Characterization of Remitting and Relapsing Hyperglycemia in Post-Renal-Transplant Recipients
Outcomes of Basic Versus Advanced Life Support for Out-of-Hospital Medical Emergencies
Most Medicare patients seeking emergency medical transport are treated by ambulance providers trained in advanced life support (ALS).
What Determines End-of-Life Assets? A Retrospective View
We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and trace assets backwards to the age when these individuals were first observed.
Impact of the Volkswagen Emissions Control Defeat Device on US Public Health
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has alleged that Volkswagen Group of America (VW) violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by developing and installing emissions control system 'defeat devices' (
Uniting Behind the Divisive ‘Cadillac’ Tax on Health Plans
The excise tax on high-cost health care plans, the so-called Cadillac tax, is good policy. Congress should side with President Obama and resist calls to scrap it.
What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
Measuring consumer responsiveness to medical care prices is a central issue in health economics and a key ingredient in the optimal design and regulation of health insurance markets.
CRISPR Democracy: Gene Editing and the Need for Inclusive Deliberation
Not since the early, heady days of recombinant DNA (rDNA) has a technique of molecular biology so gripped the scientific imagination as the CRISPR-Cas9 method of gene editing.
Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of the healthcare sector leave little scope for market forces to allocate consumers to higher performance producers.
Correcting Signals for Innovation in Health Care
A combination of legal rules and institutional forces pushes health plans to cover nearly every medical innovation.
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