Showing posts with label insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insurance. Show all posts
Thursday, May 4, 2023

It's hard to dis-intermediate insurance salespeople

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 The WSJ has the story: How Life Insurance Agents Beat Back a Tech Onslaught. Startups tried to bypass salespeople but now embrace them.  B...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Towards greater gun safety in San Jose

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 The mayor of San Jose, CA, has some thoughts on making guns and gun ownership less dangerous, in a  NY Times opinion column: 400 Million Gu...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Gay couples, surrogacy, IVF and health insurance

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  The Guardian has a story about the obstacles consulting a married gay couple in New York. They have an ongoing lawsuit regarding discrimin...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Are sociology and economics coming closer together? Philippe Steiner in Acta Oeconomica

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 Professor Philippe Steiner , of the Groupe d’Etudes des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne, thinks that these days sociology...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Pharmacy Benefit Managers--Alex Chan on NPR's Planet Money podcast

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  Alex Chan is interviewed on the role of pharmacy benefit managers, their role in drug pricing, and some problems with the market design.
Monday, August 16, 2021

Alain Enthoven on fragmented American health care

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 Writing in Health Affairs, Alain Enthoven notes that most American workers insured through their jobs work for self-insured employers, i.e....
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The complex economics of dialysis and insurance, in Freakonomics

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 Freakonomics peeks under the rocks to see what crawls out: Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All? (Ep. 457)  by Stephen J. Dubner &q...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

De-adopting zombie medical procedures

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What happens to medical procedures that are found to be no more effective than placebos?  Some live on for quite a while. One thing that wor...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Vic Fuchs considers healthcare organization going forward, in JAMA

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Vic Fuchs has a lot of insight into American healthcare. Here are his proposals for after the pandemic (or perhaps for a new administration...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Kidnapping insurance

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Preston McAfee points me to the following interesting article: The weird world of kidnapping insurance , by Jeff Spross "A private...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Vic Fuchs on the problems of employment-based health insurance, in JAMA

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Vic Fuchs, the dean of American health economists, argues that employment-based insurance has an assortment problem focused on high income ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Insurance, privacy, surveillance, algorithms, and repugnance

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The NY Times is on the case: Insurers Want to Know How Many Steps You Took Today The cutting edge of the insurance industry involves adj...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Payments for kidney disease in the U.S.

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Medpage Today has the story: Kidney Disease Payment System Draws Medicare Scrutiny 'We do not think the state of kidney disease care...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Universal health coverage under siege from both the right and the left, in the U.S. and Mexico

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Here's a commentary in The Lancet, comparing attacks on the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. and on Seguro Popular in Mexico. A dark d...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Insuring your whiskey collection

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A word to the financially prudent: don't forget to insure your whiskey collection. Bloomberg has the story, about American Internation...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Vic Fuchs on desirable health insurance overhaul

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In JAMA (gated:(.  Vic isn't optimistic about the political prospects of large scale reform of health insurance, but he has some though...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Five approaches to the opioid crisis, by pharmacologists, doctors, insurers, prosecutors, and legislators

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Five very different approaches to the opioid crisis--by 1. pharmacologists/biologists, 2. physicians, 3. payers,  4. prosecutors, and 5.le...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

An open marketplace for reinsurance

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Tremor Technologies Inc. has announced its new online marketplace for reinsurance.  Here's the press release: Tremor Technologies, I...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Gaming the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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One of the big lessons of market design is that participants have big strategy sets. Here's a new paper that explores some of what that...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Japan's health insurance will pay for overseas transplants

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In Japan, the national insurance will now pay for some transplants done overseas, when they cannot be done at home. The discussion reflects...