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Consumer Inertia in the Individual Health Insurance …

Households, indexed by , choose among health insurance plans, indexed by , that are offered in the current year, , and the rating area, , in which … See more

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Improving Health Care Service Delivery

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How to Reform Occupational Licensing

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A New Role for the FDA in Medical Device Regulation

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Scope of Practice Reform: Cost Savings and Patient …

WEBRelatedly, scope of practice reform in clinical contexts can also promote providers’ wellbeing. Scope of practice reform is associated with greater autonomy for …

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Why States Should Allow Psychologists to Prescribe Medication

WEBIllinois made a simple policy change in 2014. The state passed Senate Bill 2187, creating a pathway for psychologists to prescribe medication after approximately …

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Land Use Regulation and Housing Affordability

WEBExecutive Summary. Every city in the United States has implemented land use regulations that limit the amount of housing that can be built within city borders and raise the cost of …

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What Are the Effects of Certificate-of-Need Laws

WEBWhen the Metcalf-McCloskey Act of New York passed in 1964, the United States was seeing its first certificate-of-need (CON) law. This law allowed the state of New York to …

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Rethinking the Value of Life

WEBAs discussed above, one alternative to the VSL is the VSLY. One recent estimate of the VSLY was $369,000, 39 which, if multiplied by five years of remaining life …

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Sources of Consumer Inertia in the Individual Health

WEBIn this paper, we separately identify three distinct sources of inertia in health plan choice: (1) tastes for continuity of care from in-network healthcare providers; (2) hassle costs from …

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Stringent Immigration Enforcement and Mental Health

WEBThe authors of this paper investigate the impact of the enforcement of SB 1070 on the mental condition of Hispanic adolescent residents in Arizona, their …

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The Effects of Dental Hygienist Autonomy on Dental Care

WEBThe research shows that increasing autonomy improves patient’s access to dental care and lowers the cost of that care. While movement from level 1 to level 2 …

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Deaths of Despair: Prescriptive Authority of Psychologists and …

WEBWe present the regression results for the effect of prescriptive authority on logged overall suicide rates in Table 7. We find that overall suicide rates in our treatment …

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Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Marriage and Divorce …

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Public Interest Comment for the National Telecommunications and

WEBThe Importance of Evidence. The NTIA’s focus on “reliable sources of concrete information” in their request is laudable. Though all policies should strive to be grounded concretely …

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Taking Politics Out of Refugee Policy: Improving US

WEBIf the United States took in the same number of refugees per million residents as its northern neighbor, the United States would have resettled more than …

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Barriers to Portable Benefits Solutions for Gig Economy Workers

WEBGig economy work includes many advantages for workers over the “traditional” workplace, including increased flexibility and independence. However, its …

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Housing Affordability – Trends, Consequences, and Policies

WEBA 2018 report states that, between 2011 and 2014, rents increased at more than twice the rate as wages for renters, and house prices increased four times faster …

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What Should Policymakers Do about Social Media and Minors

WEBIntroduction. Policymakers at the state and federal levels are clamoring for solutions to problems with minors and social media. In March 2022, in his State of the …

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