Guest post from Victor Matheson (referee, economist and snarling jackel from the comments) Now that the imminent threat to the ACA has passed, I would like to thank David/Mayhew for handing over the keys for a guest post about the difficulties in dealing with cases of medical malpractice and personal injury within the ACA. Suppose …
Breathing is critical
As I have mentioned in the past, my son has asthma. Right now, it is under control. We have the orange daily maintenance inhaler, the blue emergency inhaler and a penguin shaped nebulizer with albuterol liquid for the times when his breathing is getting rough but we have time and space to respond cheaply and …
Vacation open thread
I’m on vacation for the rest of the week. I’ll be talking to an anti-trust economist and then chasing the kids through the 100 acre woods at Grandma and Grandpa. If I don’t climb ten trees and splash in the stream, I did something wrong. See you on Monday. via GIPHY Open thread
Corner cases and hard questions
As legislative repeal of the ACA is likely down for the year, we need to think about what is next. We need to lay out a couple of critical questions. 1) Money I’ll support a fully funded high cost risk pool. I’ll support fully funded single payer. If the mechanism means that at least as …
A few ideas to fix the Exchanges
My piece on a few technical ideas to fix the Exchanges is up at Stat: The simplest way to do this is for both chambers of Congress to pass a bill that guarantees the funding of Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies… The BCRA would have allowed a plan to cover 58 percent of expected costs. Former …
Counterproductive cost sharing
The theory behind cost sharing is that it should deter ineffective care. In reality, it is a blunt and crude instrument that places barriers in front of effective care as well as ineffective care. I want to highlight two papers that I’ve read recently for some projects at work that will hopefully generate a couple …
Bring out your problems: Medicare edition
From last week’s post on common problems that we all have with the health insurance system, it seems that Medicare is a major source of concern. I want to highlight a couple of questions and responses and then fill in as needed. After that, raise your new concerns in comments and we’ll figure things out …
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