Category: Miscellaneous
Be back soon
Healthcare Economist will be on vacation this week. Posts will resume on Monday, December 27.
Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy brochure
Check out FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy‘s new services sheet here. The cover page and overview of some of our HEOR services are below. More details on the full scope of health economics services that we offer can be found here.
Economic Analysts: FTI Consulting Ranked #1
FTI Consulting was ranked #1 in the global Economic Analysts category for Chambers Litigation Support Guide 2021. Congratulations to the entire FTI team!
Resolving disputes rationally
Perhaps your friend–let’s call him Karl–thinks that a single payer system is the best health care system. Perhaps another friend–let’s call him Friedrich–disagrees and believe more free market systems work better. Karl thinks that Friedrich doesn’t care about poor people. Friedrich think your friend is naive in believing that the government would do a good…
Quotation of the Day
Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass. Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet
Helping strangers or kin: which person is more ethical?
Who is the more ethical person: those who help strangers or those who help family members? The answer is: it depends. According to McManus et al. (2020), the answer is “it depends”. In Studies 1 and 2, agents who helped a stranger were judged as more morally good and trustworthy than those who helped kin,…
Cartoon of the day
Redesigning health care is not as easy as it may seam.
Labor Day Special: Does vacation improve your well-being?
According to a paper by Bloom et al. (2010), the answer is ‘yes’…at least in the short run. The authors studied 96 workers from the Netherlands and asked these individuals about their well-being two weeks before their vacation, during their vacation and 1, 2 and 4 weeks after their vacation. Wellbeing was measured based on…