Comments for The Incidental Economist

Comment on The most influential health care studies, according to Twitter by Brian

Brian — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:45:56 +0000

Here’s the collected compilation…
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fm0ns826umt1b99/AAAvznCU2djNBXu9zGD1icMHa?dl=0

Comment on The most influential health care studies, according to Twitter by Amy Shefrin

Amy Shefrin — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:01:54 +0000

The themes in Gerry Anderson and Uwe Reindhardt’s “It’s the Prices Stupid” (http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/22/3/89.full) have been fairly influential to the growing body of research on price variation, market power, and provider consolidation (vertical and horizontal).

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Margaret Mortz

Margaret Mortz — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 02:29:33 +0000

http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/86816/2001044-high-premiums-in-nongroup-insurance-markets-identifying-causes-and-possible-remedies_2.pdf

Sensible?

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Sidney R. Finkel

Sidney R. Finkel — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 23:20:35 +0000

Also, the principles of insurance, why the individual mandate is necessary, why the employer mandate is necessary, how insurance works when there is risk spread among a large population. Ted Cruz and others are pushing insurance segmentation (see NYT Upshot), which is the opposite of good insurance policy. It’s like the people who know the least about how insurance works are the one’s setting the policy.

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Sidney R. Finkel

Sidney R. Finkel — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:27:08 +0000

Please, please write often and extensively on false positives and the probability analysis involved. I am an econometrician and I find that this is the single most mis-understood concept by the health care providers, including and especially physicians. Great harm is being done by the failure of the industry to understand the statistics associated with this topic.

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Kimberly Dick

Kimberly Dick — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:34:03 +0000

I don’t know if there have been any detailed studies on this, but given the Republican party’s desire to repeal the ACA, I would find it fascinating if you could find any work done to break down the lives saved by the ACA since its implementation: How many people? What are their demographics? What sorts of conditions do they have?

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Jaso

Jaso — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:23:20 +0000

Risk of death among users of Proton Pump Inhibitors: a longitudinal observational cohort study of United States veterans

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:54:07 +0000

Aaron has written about the microbiome: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/upshot/exciting-microbe-research-temper-that-giddy-feeling-in-your-gut.html

If he didn’t hit this particular study, please reach out to him.

Comment on What studies should I write about? by Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:52:51 +0000

I wrote about that one: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/upshot/why-consumers-often-err-in-choosing-health-plans.html

Comment on What studies should I write about? by David Anderson

David Anderson — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:10:51 +0000

This paper co-authored by one of my colleagues at Duke looks at the confusion inherent to buying health insurance as people anchor on “Gold” despite flipping the attributes of Gold to Bronze level plan design and premiums

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1414771?af=R&rss=currentIssue#t=article