Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Greg Mankiw has a great post on Advice for Grad Students, with links to advice given by David Romer, Hal Varian, David Laibson and more. Cochrane’s “Writing Tips for PhD students” is especially helpful for graduate students who are attempting to write scholarly articles.
“Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with”– George Carlin The New York Times published two articles this week about prescription drugs. The first deals with generic drugs (“More Generics Slow Rise in Drug Prices“); the…
In 2006, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) conducted its periodic assessment of the quality of American high school students. What is unique about the 2006 “Nation’s Report Card” was that it was the first time that high school students were tested regarding the subject of economics. How did they do? Well, it depends…
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review has been posted at Workers Comp Insider.
Sound too good to be true? Well, according to the Motley Fool website (“Best market“), Zimbabwe’s stock exchange returned 912% in 2006. The Mises Institute states that between January and the beginning of April 2007, the Zimbabwe stock exchange returned 595%, and looks to continue to be the top stock index in 2007 as well.…
What is the optimal way to pay physicians? If there were a singular variable ‘health’ that could be easily measured, patients could pay physicians for each unit of health they receive. Of course, this is not how the physician-patient relationship operates in the real world. Physicians are paid either a base rate per person per…
On Monday, August 1st, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Publix supermarket chain will be giving out free prescription drugs (“Publix to offer…antibiotics for free“). The 7 drugs which will be freely available to customers include: amoxicillin, cephalexin, penicillin VK, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and ciprofoxacin. The reasons Publix is doing this are: 1) to attract…
The August 1st edition of JAMA has an interesting article which examines how exposure to war crimes affects individuals view about peaceful negotiations (“…War Crimes…“). The study takes place in the Acholi, Lango, and Teso subregions in northern Uganda. Since the late 1980s, many people in this area of Uganda experienced the bitter fighting between…
“We want the protection the government provides, and we want freedom. Put those together, and what we really want is for our government, and the whole public sector, from firefighters to voluntary organizations, to be both responsible and responsive.” I recently finished reading the book The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy by…
The N.Y. Times Sunday Magazine has a very interesting article (“Getting Iraq wrong“) which talks about how academics and politicians make decisions. “The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once said that the trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true. Politicians live by ideas just…