Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
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…
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
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,…
Redesigning health care is not as easy as it may seam.
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…
We will pause our regularly scheduled health economics posting to celebrate my home team, the Milwaukee Brewers, making it to the playoffs. Enjoy some non-health economics related videos. Regularly scheduled health economics posting will return tomorrow. This is only the beginning. #OurCrewOurOctober pic.twitter.com/8krT1RCOKS — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) September 27, 2018 The best clip you'll watch…
An interesting piece on death and mourning in modern compared to more traditional cultures from the Oxford University Press (OUP) blog. Human relationships require huge investments and generate massive benefits, and we are not willing to let go of them unless we have unequivocal evidence that the person is dead…It is now generally accepted in…
Some math-based entertainment for your Tuesday.
This week I passed the 100 citation mark on Google Scholar. This means over 100 peer-reviewed articles have cited my own peer-reviewed research. To take a look at my full list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.