Perspective
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Physician Self-Referral: A Vexing and Costly Challenge
Reprioritizing the current fee-for-service environment with fee-for-value alternatives is a worthwhile systems change that might curb the financial incentive inherent in the volume-based model.
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Why So Many New Tech Companies are Getting into Healthcare
Bob Kocher and Bryan Roberts discuss why new tech companies are getting into healthcare in the Harvard Business Review
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Reflecting on the Opportunity to Attend the Fifth Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences
Lauren Scarpati is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Schaeffer Center, Dornsife Doctoral Fellow, PhD candidate in Economics, and was nominated and funded by the National Science Foundation to attend the meeting.
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Five Myths about Cancer Care in America
Dana Goldman and Tomas Philipson highlight the consequence of common myths about cancer care including drawing the public’;s attention away from the
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Where Obamacare Went Wrong (Or Did It?)
The key political mistake – but not a policy mistake – was tying this reform to an individual mandate.
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Don’t Be Fooled by Claims About the ACA Impact on Insurance Premiums
The goal of competition is to lower prices, but when it comes to health insurance — as with all of health care — we need to be careful about what we mean by price.
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What Healthcare Can Learn from Netflix
The trick here is to think of pharmaceuticals as any other consumer good where there are high fixed costs and low marginal costs.
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Don’t Blame the Medical Innovators
The problem is not medical technology per se – it is how it diffuses into practice.
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