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Critical comments on health economics and policy
31 de desembre 2016
The Voltaire of health economics
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MAYNARD MATTERS Critical Thinking on Health Policy For any health economist, Alan Maynard is a reference. We've been reading his cont...
25 de desembre 2016
The two friends story
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THE TWO FRIENDS WHO CHANGED HOW WE THINK ABOUT HOW WE THINK Sunstein and Thaler provide an excellent review of a unique book by MichaelLew...
22 de desembre 2016
Healthy lifespans are improving, do we know why?
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Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy In the U.S. Elderly Population If you want to know the reason behind the ...
20 de desembre 2016
Simplistic arguments on healthcare cost growth
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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care After all these years of great recession, there is an argument that should be revi...
19 de desembre 2016
Why organizations are such a mess?
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Many years ago I attended to a PhD course on Organizational Economics by Robbert Gibbons , from MIT. I still remember the title of one of h...
18 de desembre 2016
The farce of confidential drug prices
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We are approaching the end of cost-effectiveness as we have known. If you can't use the price of the drug because it is confidential, th...
17 de desembre 2016
In Memoriam of Thomas Schelling
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Thomas Schelling: Game Theory, Cold War, Coordination, Leadership, Tipping, Focal point... Eleven years ago, Thomas Schelling was awarded ...
16 de desembre 2016
In search for the right approach to risk adjustment
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Comparison of the Properties of Regression and Categorical Risk-Adjustment Models Measuring risk-adjustment is crucial for avoiding risk s...
10 de desembre 2016
Hiding money in a neo-feudal world of concentrated wealth
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The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money There is a fight between State and wealthy people, and...
07 de desembre 2016
Motivated bayesians or classical bayesians
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Classical Bayesians will both seek out the most informative evidenceand process it in an unbiased way. However, motivated bayesians gather a...
02 de desembre 2016
Healthcare and financial markets
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The next act in healthcare private equity Mckinsey has released a short article that allows to understand recent profitability of healthc...
30 de novembre 2016
Are we reaching the flat-of-the-curve medicine?
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Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 Fifty years ago, Victor Fuchs wrote : “Although many health services definitely improve health, in other...
29 de novembre 2016
Populist health politics, the ultimate nightmare in the post-truth society
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What is populism? Nowadays populism is on the rise, unfortunately. Politicians embrace such option because we are in the post-truth societ...
08 de novembre 2016
Genome editing: a major breakthrough in life sciences
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Redesigning Life: How genome editing will transform the world While in a previous post I claimed that genome editing could be a " wea...
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