March 12, 2020
Formulating coronavirus policy, politicians and physicians can look at the successful non-pharmaceutical interventions during the 1918-1918 pandemic.
February 4, 2020
Knowing that healthcare spending is a big national and individual concern, we took a look at what economists believe about Medicare for All.
November 20, 2019
When we look at aging populations, 65 could be new 55 because of the difference between our chronological age and our biological age.
November 13, 2019
A close look at health inequality reveals that money and the life expectancy gap might not be as closely related as we might assume.
November 6, 2019
Called a prescription escalator, our prescription drug spending is more about efficacy and age than the rising prices that we say we see.
October 10, 2019
The six categories of healthcare spending waste and the five groups that help to create it can be related to Fermi's Paradox.
July 9, 2019
Ideal for considering Medicare For All, this Medicare update conveys six facts about Medicare enrollment, Medicare geography, and Medicare popularity.
July 2, 2019
While healthcare price transparency sounds like a logical way to constrain soaring healthcare costs, the results were not quite what we expected.
May 3, 2019
In a new report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) presents a menu of choices that we will need to consider if we want single payer healthcare.
April 25, 2019
When we look at the cost effectiveness of healthcare spending, we could conclude that it is not as excessive as the headlines indicate.
April 22, 2019
When we consider the impact of social jetlag on our health and productivity, our sleep time could matter more than we think.
March 20, 2019
By avoiding repugnant transactions like selling foie gras or human organs, we are eliminating the benefits of the market.