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Who in America has mental health problems

WebGraduate education yikes: Youths with parents with higher education had more mental health symptoms; the prevalence of mental health symptom was 37.4% …

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The Great Resignation: Health Care Workers

WebEd Yong in the Atlantic discusses Why Health-Care Workers are Quitting in Droves: Health-care workers, under any circumstances, live in the thick of death, stress, …

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Government Medical Research Spending Favors Women

WebIt would be surprising if industry research was biased against women because women are bigger consumers of health care than men. The Centers for …

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Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the …

WebIn large part yes: Over 2009-2019 the seemingly inexorable rise in health care’s share of GDP markedly slowed, both in the US and elsewhere. To address …

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Random Critical Analysis on Health Care

Web2. The price of health care increases with income but at a slower rate than income. As a result of the above: 3. The price of health care relative to income is lower …

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One Reason Why American Health Care is Expensive

WebThe average person will be poorer and somebody organized enough to fly internationally to seek healthcare is going to be a dream patient. The expensive patients …

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Combining life insurance and health insurance

WebWhy not internalize the relevant externalities by bringing the two together?: We estimate the benefit of life-extending medical treatments to life insurance companies. Our …

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The performance of the NIH during the pandemic in 2020

WebHere is the full report from Johns Hopkins, and here is the executive summary: Of the $42 Billion 2020 NIH annual budget, 5.7% was spent on. COVID-19 …

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What’s Behind Her Smile

WebLooks matter!: This paper examines how improving dental health affects economic, social, and psychological outcomes. In a randomized experiment, we provide …

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Brad DeLong's health care plan is outed

WebBrad DeLong’s health care plan is outed. It is described as utopian, read it here, excerpt: health bills. If your expenses in a year are less than 15% of your. refund …

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Why did the HMO revolution fail

WebDuring the 1990’s it seemed, briefly, as if private H.M.O.’s. could play that role. But then there was a public backlash. It turns out that. even in America, with its faith …

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From the comments, more on health care

WebBy the time someone is so fat they need to go to the zoo for an MRI, they're well past the point where merely forcing them to pay more for health care is going to fix …

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The marginal value of health care and hospital admission

WebHere is the job market paper of Nathan Petek, from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago:. Abstract: The marginal benefit of health care …

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From the comments, on single payer

WebSingle payer’s magic has historically worked via just a few channels: 1. Some amount of monopsony allows the government to bid down medical services below …

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Are Health Administrators To Blame

WebMore generally, the graph is misleading because it suggests that “administrators” are to blame for high health care costs and if only we could focus on the …

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The willingness to pay for IVF

WebThe response to insurance is substantially more pronounced at lower income levels. At the median of the disposable income distribution, our estimates imply a …

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The Lasting Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

WebWages of men were 5–9 percent lower because of infection. Socioeconomic status…was substantially reduced, and the likelihood of being poor rose as much as 15 …

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The Norwegian ban on smart phones in middle schools

WebHere is a new paper by Sara Abrahamsson. Perhaps there is Norwegian exceptionalism at work, but the results reflect my expectations reasonably closely. The …

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Private versus Public Health Care in India

WebIn an important paper in the latest AER, Das, Holla, Mohpal and the excellent Karthik Muralidharan compare private and public health care in India. (I once asked, “Is …

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What can be learned from Singaporean health care institutions

WebSingaporean appointments are less than half the price of those in the UK. The most affordable online appointment I found in the UK was £29. Yet, many providers …

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