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The Opportunity Cost of Healthcare Treatment

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Nobel Economics Winner Angus Deaton

WEBThe 2015 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Angus Deaton studied inequality through health and wealth and micro and macroeconomics.

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The Reasons For Health Inequality and the Life Expectancy Gap

WEBThe Reason For Health Inequality. Health inequality is growing in the U.S. Seeing a bigger U.S. life expectancy gap, some hypothesize that income is the reason. …

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Where Civil Liberties Trade-offs Were Worth the Better

WEBIn a new NBER paper, a group of Harvard and Stanford scholars investigated how much of our civil liberties we would trade for better health conditions. …

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Doctor Shortages From Supply, Demand and a Price …

WEBMonths long delays and long distance travel have become typical Affordable Care Act (ACA) problems for Medicaid patients. The cause, according to a government …

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The Consumer Behavior That Reflects the Interplay of Health and …

WEBLooking at 18 countries, we would see that the interplay of health and wealth during the coronavirus pandemic has affected consumer behavior.

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The Role of Government For Healthcare Spending

WEBFor major OECD countries and the U.S., the source and destination for healthcare spending reflect national values about limited government.

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The Opportunity Cost of the ACA is More Labor Force

WEBThere is probably a tradeoff between health insurance and the demand for jobs.. During 2005 in Tennessee, the demand for jobs increased when 170,000 people …

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Different Healthcare Coverage from Three Systems

WEBDuring the first 8 to 10 days after childbirth in the Netherlands, women can have a professional maternity expert come to their home. Lasting as long as 7 or 8 hours …

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The Scandinavian Taxes That Pay For Their Social Programs

WEBMeanwhile a proportional tax takes the same percent from everyone. The U.S. Medicare payroll tax of 2.9% is proportional. And finally, a regressive tax takes a …

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Why the Meaning of Fast Delivery is Always Changing

WEBIn 2015, 63% of us agreed that fast shipping took three to four days: No more… The 2018 Consumer. Rather quickly, our perception of FAST has changed.

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Cutting the Federal Deficit is Difficult

WEBPolitical popularity, American values, and spending on programs that affect the well-being of many people make it tough to be a federal deficit hawk.

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The Efficacy of Calorie Lables

WEBNow that we know a Starbucks Double Chocolaty Chip Frappucino Blended Creme has 540 calories, do we care? Domino’s does. Expressing resistance to a calorie …

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The Problem With Averages When Ranking National Healthcare

WEBNumber 50 out of 55 countries, the U.S. performed dismally in Bloomberg’s healthcare system tracker. Their criteria were life expectancy, healthcare spending per …

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Weekly Economic News Roundup: Expensive Cities to Cheaper …

WEBConnecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from a single payer healthcare system to Chipotle's avocados.

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Countries With the Most and Least Laissez-Faire Governments

WEBFor Europe the “ laissez-faire list” is led by Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark, Estonia and the UK. As you can see, the bottom of the list is Ukraine. For Asia and the …

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Behavioral Economics Explains Health Club Memberships

WEBThe Cost. Health club payment plans tend toward three basic options. You can pay per visit, per month or per year. An initiation or joining fee is also typical. While …

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Healthcare Spending With Require Bigger Fiscal Policy Tradeoffs

WEBWith tax payer dollars paying for drug treatment regimens that are ever more expensive, we wind up with big fiscal policy tradeoffs to ration health care.

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The Economic Side of Vaccines' Positive Externalities

WEBThe Economic Impact of Vaccination. Researchers at Harvard used data from the Philippines to hypothesize that vaccinations have an impact on human capital …

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How Refrigerating Fruit Imports Led To Globalization

WEBA New York bound boat from Ecuador could have four million bananas on board and some other cargo as well. After docking, the bananas have a radiation check, …

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Taxation is Redistribution That Can Affect Production Incentves

WEBOur bottom line: Taxation is redistribution. Its basic dilemma is deciding when the size of redistribution starts to adversely affect production incentives. Elaine Schwartz …

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