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.
Research
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.
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.
Review of A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
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
Toward a 21st Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform
The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the U.S. health care system are evident.
Plan Unsaddles U.S. Business from Health Care Cost Burdens
You've heard the naysayers complaining that President Barack Obama's $634 billion down payment on health care reform costs too much. We're in a global economic crisis, they say.
Comment: Health and Well-Being in Udaipur and South Africa
Book Abstract: Ten papers, originally presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona, in May 2005, examine emerging issues in the economics of aging.
What Is and Is Not Wrong with Enhancement
Book abstract: To what extent should we use technology to try to make better human beings?
Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?
Book Abstract: Ten papers, originally presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona, in May 2005, examine emerging issues in the economics of aging.
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