Category: Health care
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Mark D. White Bear with me, this is very relevant, especially to the previous post on behavioral law and economics. Even if it's not, it's very interesting. The new issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (16/6, 2010) (open access until February 28, 2011) features a symposium on the cognitive neurosceicne of confabulation.…
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Mark D. White As you may have heard, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday that the part of the Affordable Care Act (the health care reform bill passed earlier this year) dependant on the individual mandate to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. From his ruling (as reported by The Wall Street Journal): "At…
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Mark D. White I thought the first two letters to the editor in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal were excellent, reinforcing a point made in my chapter from Accepting the Invisible Hand: Market-Based Approaches to Social-Economic Problems on markets, dignity, and health care (see this previous post): Dr. Sally Satel helpfully describes some of the factors inhibiting…
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Mark D. White Yesterday's Blondie strip was enlightening, albeit (likely) unintentionally so: I imagine Dagwood's response to the incentives provided by having to deal with some of the expenses of one's own health insurance is supposed to elicit disgruntled agreement among readers. But it really highlights an unintended consequence of the alternative: if individuals…
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Mark D. White You beat me to it, Jonathan–I was going to wait until the president signed the bill, but since you said your piece, I will too. Universal health care coverage is a laudable goal–or, to be precise, universal access to coverage is laudable, since health care insurance should always be voluntary, with individuals…
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Mark D. White Apparently, according to a recent AP article by Carla K. Johnson, present in both the House and Senate health care reform bills is a program in which workers at participating companies would be automatically enrolled – critics say "tricked into" enrolling – unless they opted out. People would see a deduction for…
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Mark D. White In his recent column, "The Values Question," David Brooks definitely has the right idea in general regarding health care reform, making a bold statement that I completely agree with (especially the bolded part, emphasis mine): It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform. But, like all…
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