30 d’abril 2016

Income and longevity, almost all you need to know

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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014  The estimates of impact of income on longevity are no...
29 d’abril 2016

European health regulation on lab tests, the final round? (2)

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Last week, Theranos clinical lab has received more bad news. Though the final resolution is still pending, all available informations ra...

Platforms, a business model

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Platform scale Platform Scale   (n): Business scale powered by the ability to leverage and orchestrate a global connected ecosystem of pr...
17 d’abril 2016

Economic Ethics

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Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics Some economists, while watching the film Inside job , were astonished by Martin Feldstein ...
15 d’abril 2016

Where is the trade-off?

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The fallacy of the equity-efficiency trade off: rethinking the efficient health system What goes first? An equitable health system or an e...
14 d’abril 2016

The badness and the wrongness of inequality

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 On inequality Two ideas from the philosopher Harry Frankfurt : (1) from a moral point of view, economic equality does not really matter v...
12 d’abril 2016

The key piece of gear

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La peça clau de l'engranatge This is the original version of my abridged op-ed in El Punt Avui published last Sunday . (in catalan, yo...
08 d’abril 2016

Introducing nudging in the law

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Nudge and the Law. A European Perspective Alberto Alemanno is an HEC law professor focused on issues on behavioral policies and regulatio...
06 d’abril 2016

Income and health over lifetime

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Redistribution from a Lifetime Perspective An IFS paper says : Most analysis of the effects of the tax and benefit system is based on s...
01 d’abril 2016

Obamacare, a book and a documentary

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Inside National Health Reform (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) If you want to know the details about how Obamacare was ...
20 de març 2016

Fiduciary duty in medicine

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Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership Professionalism is a key concept to understand the practice of med...
16 de març 2016

Rational emotions

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Feeling smart Game theory is a crucial contribution to science. However it is not that easy to get a clear understanding unless experimen...
09 de març 2016

The building blocks of healthcare payment systems

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The Building Blocks of Successful Payment Reform: Designing Payment Systems that Support Higher–Value Health Care The implementation of he...
08 de març 2016

Improving physician compensation

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A Guide to Physician-Focused Alternative Payment Models A fixed flat monthly payment to  physicians is a vulgar method to compensate a pro...