Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
In this New Yearâs edition of the Cavalcade of Risk, the Healthcare Economist will make four New Yearâs resolutions. They are: 1) to get better Health Insurance, 2) to promote better Public Policy on health issues, 3) to improve the Health for individuals around the world and 4) to increase societyâs wealth. What does better Health Insurance…
This week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at the Cato@Liberty website.
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at David Williams’ Health Business Blog website.
 âEconomic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body â the producers and consumers themselvesâ? – Herbert Hoover When economists analyze any industry, their first step is to look at the incentives facing the producers and the consumers.…
Health Wonk Review #15 is posted at Henry Stern’s InsureBlog. FYI: While Mr. Stern refers to me as Dr. Shafrin, I have not yet completed my PhD and thus a title of “Mister” is the only one I can currently claim.
In the healthcare field, as well as for most interesting areas which merit investigation, economists and policy analysts are faced with tradeoffs. Reducing the cost of healthcare often comes with a sacrifice in the quality or quantity of medical services provided; increasing the quality or quantity of medical services usually increases the price of healthcare. …