Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans.
Research
The Effect of Medicare Part D on Drug and Medical Spending
Background: It is not known what effect the increased use of prescription drugs by enrollees in Medicare Part D has had on spending for other medical care. Methods: We compared spending for prescript
Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans.
Hospital Quality And Intensity Of Spending: Is There An Association?
Numerous studies in the United States have examined the association between quality and spending at the regional level.
High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans: Efforts To Sharpen A Blunt Instrument
High deductible—based health insurance plans require consumers to pay for care until reaching the deductible amount.
Discrimination, Disability and Irrelevant Goods
Book Abstract: This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the experiences of people with disabilities can lead to reconsideratio
Criminal Prosecution as a Deterrent to Health Care Fraud
The units of measure for losses due to health care fraud and abuse in this country are hundreds of billions of dollars per year. We just don't know the first digit.
Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization
India is an emerging global superpower as its rapid growth has transformed its economy and has maintained itself as the world’s largest democracy.
Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function
If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health ins
The Past as Prologue in Life Extension
Aging research may significantly lengthen human life spans in the foreseeable future. This paper argues that we do not need to wait until this happens to prepare for the dislocations that may result.
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