Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
To lighten your mood… A traveller wandering on an island inhabited entirely by cannibals comes upon a butcher shop. This shop specialised in human brains differentiated according to source. The sign in the shop read: Artists’ Brains $9/lb Philosophers’ Brains $12/lb Scientists’ Brains $15/lb Economists’ Brains $19/lb Upon reading the sign, the traveller noted, “My…
Health Wonk Review #7 is available at InsureBlog.
I just finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, a very entertaining novel about the maturation of a boy who grew up in Afghanistan and later emigrated to the United States. In the book, there is a wonderful passage where the protagonist’s father lectures him on morality. His speech is one with which most…
When economists talk of improved healthcare, they are generally speaking of technological improvement or increased efficiency in the production of medical care. When most people talk about better healthcare, “better healthcare” means more medical services for free. The Angry Economist rants regarding the ‘something-for-nothing’ attitude of the general public. The very existance of that phrase…
The May 4th Health Wonk Review has been posted on Joe Paduda’s Managed Care Matters site.
Who says MBA students don’t learn anything? Check out this video where Columbia MBA students parody Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke. It is pretty entertaining.
Not everyone is like me and enjoys employing the discipline of economics in their research. On the Gendergeek blog, the author claims in her Geek-onomics post that: It worries me that so much of the heavily gendered distortions of modern economics, in conjunction with its methodological fetishism, is unnoticed or ignored. Economics could turn out…
Yesterday was the NFL Draft. It is a day of hope where teams can look to their future and see a potential Pro-Bowl individual joining their cadre of players. For instance my favorite team, the Green Bay Packers, selected linebacker A.J. Hawk from Ohio State University. The team was considering trading their number 5 pick…
Kate Steadman’s Healthy Policy blog is hosting the Health Wonk Review #3 for this week. The HWR distills two weeks of health policy blogging to bring readers the best of the best. Topics include: Reform: Whatâs the definition of âisâ? edition Changes are Aâ Comin Medicine and Health Policy From the Unbeaten Health Blogosphere Path…
The NCAA Men’s basketball tournament is almost upon us. Time to fill out your brackets and cheer for your favorite teams. I have filled out my bracket, but as an economist, I can’t do this as any normal person would. I have used some quantitiative measures in order to rank the teams. The teams are…