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Access to Medicines

Book abstract: Increasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever.

Neuroscience and Moral Reasoning: A Note on Recent Research

Performance Improvement and Performance Dysfunction: An Empirical Examination of Distortionary Impacts of the Emergency Room Wait-Time Target in the English National Health Service

The literature on the use of performance measurement in government has focused much attention on hypothesized unintended dysfunctional consequences that such measurement may produce.

Health Insurance Exchanges — Making the Markets Work

Americans purchase health insurance in various ways. Some buy individual policies.

The Net Value of Health Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 1997 to 2005

The economic value of improvements in health status for patients with type 2 diabetes seems to exceed or equal increases in health care spending, suggesting that those increases were worth the extra c

The Net Value of Health Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 1997 to 2005

Background: The net economic value of increased health care spending remains unclear, especially for chronic diseases.

Health Lessons from Schools

If Congress creates a public option in health-care insurance, will that inevitably lead to a single-payer system, with the government everyone's insurer?

Income, Insurance, And Technology: Why Does Health Spending Outpace Economic Growth?

A broad consensus holds that increased medical capability—technology—is the primary driver of health spending growth.

A Trillion-Dollar Geography Lesson

Dartmouth researchers have demonstrated that there is tremendous geographic variation in the efficiency of health care delivery systems, fostered by perverse incentives that penalize integration, rewa

Generic Script Share and the Price of Brand-Name Drugs: The Role of Consumer Choice

Pharmaceutical expenditures have grown rapidly in recent decades, and now total nearly 10% of health care costs.